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Every set $A$ of positive integers with upper Banach density 1 contains an infinite sequence of pairwise disjoint subsets $(B_i)_{i=1}^{\infty}$ such that $B_i$ has upper Banach density 1 for all $i \in \mathbf{N}$ and $\sum_{i\in I} B_i…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Melvyn B. Nathanson

Nonlinear complexity, as an important measure for assessing the randomness of sequences, is defined as the length of the shortest feedback shift registers that can generate a given sequence. In this paper, the structure of n-periodic binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qin Yuan , Chunlei Li , Xiangyong Zeng

We investigate additive properties of sets $A,$ where $A=\{a_1,a_2,\ldots ,a_k\}$ is a monotone increasing set of real numbers, and the differences of consecutive elements are all distinct. It is known that $|A+B|\geq c|A||B|^{1/2}$ for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Imre Ruzsa , Jozsef Solymosi

We call $(a_1, \dots, a_n)$ an \emph{$r$-partial sequence} if exactly $r$ of its entries are positive integers and the rest are all zero. For ${\bf c} = (c_1, \dots, c_n)$ with $1 \leq c_1 \leq \dots \leq c_n$, let $S_{\bf c}^{(r)}$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Peter Borg

The Binary Two-Up Sequence is the lexicographically earliest sequence of distinct nonnegative integers with the property that the binary expansion of the n-th term has no 1-bits in common with any of the previous floor(n/2) terms. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Michael De Vlieger , Thomas Scheuerle , Rémy Sigrist , N. J. A. Sloane , Walter Trump

A Barker sequence is a binary sequence for which all nontrivial aperiodic autocorrelations are at most 1 in magnitude. An old conjecture due to Turyn asserts that there is no Barker sequence of length greater than 13. In 1961, Turyn and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Kai-Uwe Schmidt , Jürgen Willms

Building on a bijection of Vandervelde, we enumerate certain unimodal sequences whose alternating sum equals zero. This enables us to refine the enumeration of strict partitions with respect to the number of parts and the BG-rank.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Shishuo Fu , Dazhao Tang

A subset $A$ of a group $G$ is called $(k, l)$-{\it sumset}, if $A= kB-lB$ for some $B\subseteq G$, where $kB-lB={x_1+...+x_k-x_{k+1}-...-x_{k+l} : x_1,..., x_{k+l}\in B}.$ Upper and lower bounds for the number $(k, l)$-sumsets in groups of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-07-27 V. Sargsyan

A sequence of nonzero integers $f = (f_1, f_2, \dots)$ is ``binomid'' if every $f$-binomid coefficient $\left[\! \begin{array}{c} n \\ k \end{array}\! \right]_f$ is an integer. Those terms are the generalized binomial coefficients: \[…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Daniel B. Shapiro

The critical exponent of an infinite word $\bf x$ is the supremum, over all finite nonempty factors $f$, of the exponent of $f$. In this note we show that for all integers $k\geq 2,$ there is a binary infinite $k$-automatic sequence with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 J. -P. Allouche , N. Rampersad , J. Shallit

Let $A$ be a sequence of positive integers and $P(A)$ be the set of all integers which are the finite sum of distinct terms of $A$. For given positive integers $u\in\{4,7,8\}\cup\{u:u\ge11\}$ and $v\ge 3u+5$ we know that $u+v+1$ is the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Xiao-Hui Yan , Bing-Ling Wu

For a general family of non-negative functions matching upper and lower bounds are established for their average over the values of any equidistributed sequence.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Stephanie Chan , Peter Koymans , Carlo Pagano , Efthymios Sofos

Let $K = \mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$. An $n$-element subset $A$ of $K$ is a $B_h$-set if every element of $K$ has at most one representation as the sum of $h$ not necessarily distinct elements of $A$. Associated to the $B_h$ set $A =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Melvyn B. Nathanson

A sequence of positive integers $(a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k)$ is called $\ell$-additive if $a_1+a_2+\cdots+a_k=\ell a_1$ or $\ell a_k$. In this paper, we prove that for all $k\geq3$, if $n$ is sufficiently large, then every permutation of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Collier Gaiser , Paul Horn

Orientable sequences of order n are infinite periodic sequences with symbols drawn from a finite alphabet of size k with the property that any particular subsequence of length n occurs at most once in a period in either direction. They were…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Chris J Mitchell , Peter R Wild

This short note deals with the so-called $ Sock \; Matching \; Problem$. We define $B_{n,k}$ as the number of all the finite sequences $a_1, \ldots, a_{2n}$ of nonnegative integers which contain at least one occurrence of $k$ $(1 \leq k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Bojana Pantić , Olga Bodroža-Pantić

Let k>2 be a fixed integer exponent and let \theta > 9/10. We show that a positive integer N can be represented as a non-trivial sum or difference of 3 k-th powers, using integers of size at most B, in O(B^{\theta}N^{1/10}) ways, providing…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-27 D. R. Heath-Brown

This paper presents a bijection between ascent sequences and upper triangular matrices whose non-negative entries are such that all rows and columns contain at least one non-zero entry. We show the equivalence of several natural statistics…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-21 Mark Dukes , Robert Parviainen

The Ulam sequence is given by $a_1 =1, a_2 = 2$, and then, for $n \geq 3$, the element $a_n$ is defined as the smallest integer that can be written as the sum of two distinct earlier elements in a unique way. This gives the sequence $1, 2,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Noah Kravitz , Stefan Steinerberger

In this paper 101 new integer sequences, sub-sequences, and sequences of sequences, together with related unsolved problems and conjectures, are presented. Also, definitions, examples, solved or open questions, and references for each…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Florentin Smarandache