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Sets of integers with no large sum-free subset

Combinatorics 2014-11-10 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

Answering a question of P. Erdos from 1965, we show that for every eps>0 there is a set A of n integers with the following property: every subset A' of A with at least (1/3 + eps)n elements contains three distinct elements x,y,z with x + y = z.

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@article{arxiv.1301.4579,
  title  = {Sets of integers with no large sum-free subset},
  author = {Sean Eberhard and Ben Green and Freddie Manners},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.4579},
  year   = {2014}
}

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31 pages