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The upper logarithmic density of monochromatic subset sums

Combinatorics 2022-09-23 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

We show that in any two-coloring of the positive integers there is a color for which the set of positive integers that can be represented as a sum of distinct elements with this color has upper logarithmic density at least (2+3)/4(2+\sqrt{3})/4 and this is best possible. This answers a forty-year-old question of Erd\H{o}s.

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@article{arxiv.2105.15195,
  title  = {The upper logarithmic density of monochromatic subset sums},
  author = {David Conlon and Jacob Fox and Huy Tuan Pham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.15195},
  year   = {2022}
}

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