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Additive completition of thin sets

Number Theory 2022-09-20 v1

Abstract

Two sets A,BA,B of positive integers are called \emph{exact additive complements}, if A+BA+B contains all sufficiently large integers and A(x)B(x)/x1A(x)B(x)/x\rightarrow1. Let A={a1<a2<}A=\{a_1<a_2<\cdots\} be a set of positive integers. Denote A(x)A(x) by the counting function of AA and a(x)a^*(x) by the largest element in A[1,x]A\bigcap [1,x]. Following the work of Ruzsa and Chen-Fang, we prove that, for exact additive complements A,BA,B with an+1nan\frac{a_{n+1}}{na_n}\rightarrow\infty, we have A(x)B(x)xa(x)A(x)+o(a(x)A(x)2)A(x)B(x)-x\ge \frac{a^*(x)}{A(x)}+o\left(\frac{a^*(x)}{A(x)^2}\right) as x+x\rightarrow +\infty. On the other hand, we also construct exact additive complements A,BA,B with an+1nan\frac{a_{n+1}}{na_n}\rightarrow\infty such that A(x)B(x)xa(x)A(x)+(1+o(1))(a(x)A(x)2)A(x)B(x)-x\le \frac{a^*(x)}{A(x)}+(1+o(1))\left(\frac{a^*(x)}{A(x)^2}\right) holds for infinitely many positive integers xx.

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@article{arxiv.2209.08509,
  title  = {Additive completition of thin sets},
  author = {Jin-Hui Fang and Csaba Sándor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.08509},
  year   = {2022}
}

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