About an extension of the Davenport-Rado result to the Herzog-Schonheim conjecture for free groups

TL;DR

This paper extends the Herzog-Schönheim conjecture for free groups by adapting the Davenport-Rado result, offering a new approach to understanding coset partitions and subgroup indices.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method extending the Davenport-Rado result to free groups, advancing the study of the Herzog-Schönheim conjecture.

Findings

Extended Davenport-Rado result to free groups.

Provided new insights into coset partitions.

Proposed a novel approach to Herzog-Schönheim conjecture.

Abstract

Let $G$ be a group and $H_1$,...,$H_s$ be subgroups of $G$ of indices $d_1$,...,$d_s$ respectively. In 1974, M. Herzog and J. Sch\"onheim conjectured that if $\{H_i\alpha_i\}_{i=1}^{i=s}$, $\alpha_i\in G$, is a coset partition of $G$, then $d_1$,..,$d_s$ cannot be distinct. We consider the Herzog-Sch\"onheim conjecture for free groups of finite rank and propose a new approach, based on an extension of the Davenport-Rado result for $G=\mathbb{Z}$.