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On $AP_3$ - covering sequences

Number Theory 2022-01-27 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Recently, motivated by Stanley sequences, Kiss, S\' andor and Yang introduced a new type sequence: a sequence AA of nonnegative integers is called an APkAP_k - covering sequence if there exists an integer n0n_0 such that if n>n0n > n_0, then there exist a1A,,ak1Aa_1\in A, \dots , a_{k-1}\in A, a1<a2<<ak1<na_1<a_2<\cdots <a_{k-1}<n such that a1,,ak1,na_1, \dots , a_{k-1}, n form a kk-term arithmetic progression. They prove that there exists an AP3AP_3 - covering sequence AA such that lim supnA(n)/n34\limsup\limits_{n\to\infty}{A(n)}/{\sqrt n}\le 34. In this note, we prove that there exists an AP3AP_3 - covering sequence AA such that lim supnA(n)/n=15\limsup\limits_{n\to\infty}{A(n)}/{\sqrt n}=\sqrt{15}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.00172,
  title  = {On $AP_3$ - covering sequences},
  author = {Yong-Gao Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00172},
  year   = {2022}
}

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