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Infinite Families of Partitions into MSTD Subsets

Number Theory 2019-10-23 v2

Abstract

A set AA is MSTD (more-sum-than-difference) if A+A>AA|A+A|>|A-A|. Though MSTD sets are rare, Martin and O'Bryant proved that there exists a positive constant lower bound for the proportion of MSTD subsets of {1,2,,r}\{1,2,\ldots ,r\} as rr\rightarrow\infty. Later, Asada et al. showed that there exists a positive constant lower bound for the proportion of decompositions of {1,2,,r}\{1,2,\ldots,r\} into two MSTD subsets as rr\rightarrow\infty. However, the method is probabilistic and does not give explicit decompositions. Continuing this work, we provide an efficient method to partition {1,2,,r}\{1,2,\ldots,r\} (for rr sufficiently large) into k2k \ge 2 MSTD subsets, positively answering a question raised by Asada et al. as to whether this is possible for all such kk. Next, let R(k)R(k) be the smallest integer such that for all rR(k)r\ge R(k), {1,2,,r}\{1,2,\ldots,r\} can be kk-decomposed into MSTD subsets. We establish rough lower and upper bounds for R(k)R(k). Lastly, we provide a sufficient condition on when there exists a positive constant lower bound for the proportion of decompositions of {1,2,,r}\{1,2,\ldots,r\} into kk MSTD subsets as rr\rightarrow \infty.

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@article{arxiv.1808.05460,
  title  = {Infinite Families of Partitions into MSTD Subsets},
  author = {Hung Viet Chu and Noah Luntzlara and Steven J. Miller and Lily Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05460},
  year   = {2019}
}

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