Compression and complexity for sumset sizes in additive number theory
Number Theory
2026-04-07 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
The study of sums of finite sets of integers has mostly concentrated on sets with small sumsets (Freiman's theorem and related work) and on sets with large sumsets (Sidon sets and -sets). This paper considers the sets and of \emph{all} sizes of -fold sums of sets of integers or of lattice points, and the geometric and computational complexity of the sets and . For sumsets with large diameter, there is a compression algorithm to construct sets with and small diameter.
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@article{arxiv.2505.20998,
title = {Compression and complexity for sumset sizes in additive number theory},
author = {Melvyn B. Nathanson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20998},
year = {2026}
}
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