Symmetric complete sum-free sets in cyclic groups

Abstract

We present constructions of symmetric complete sum-free sets in general finite cyclic groups. It is shown that the relative sizes of the sets are dense in [0, 1/3], answering a question of Cameron, and that the number of those contained in the cyclic group of order n is exponential in n. For primes p, we provide a full characterization of the symmetric complete sum-free subsets of ℤp of size at least (1/3−c)·p, where c > 0 is a universal constant.