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In this note we give a characterization of elementary abelian 2-groups in terms of their maximal sum-free subsets.

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    Marius Tărnăuceanu

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00013-016-1019-7.

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Tărnăuceanu, M. A characterization of elementary abelian 2-groups. Arch. Math. 102, 11–14 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-013-0581-5

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