Partitions of natural numbers and their representation functions.
Let be a linear form with nonzero integer coefficients Let be an -tuple of finite sets of integers and let be an infinite set of integers. Define the representation function associated to the form and the sets and as follows :If this representation function is constant, then the set is periodic and the period of will be bounded in terms of the diameter of the finite set Other results for complementing sets with respect to linear forms are also proved.