On a conjecture of Sárközy and Szemerédi

Yong-Gao Chen

Acta Arithmetica (2015)

  • Volume: 169, Issue: 1, page 47-58
  • ISSN: 0065-1036

Abstract

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Two infinite sequences A and B of non-negative integers are called infinite additive complements if their sum contains all sufficiently large integers. In 1994, Sárközy and Szemerédi conjectured that there exist infinite additive complements A and B with lim sup A(x)B(x)/x ≤ 1 and A(x)B(x)-x = O(minA(x),B(x)), where A(x) and B(x) are the counting functions of A and B, respectively. We prove that, for infinite additive complements A and B, if lim sup A(x)B(x)/x ≤ 1, then, for any given M > 1, we have A ( x ) B ( x ) - x ( m i n A ( x ) , B ( x ) ) M for all sufficiently large integers x. This disproves the above Sárközy-Szemerédi conjecture. We also pose several problems for further research.

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Yong-Gao Chen. "On a conjecture of Sárközy and Szemerédi." Acta Arithmetica 169.1 (2015): 47-58. <http://eudml.org/doc/279289>.

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