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On a problem of S\'ark\"ozy and S\'os for multivariate linear forms

Combinatorics 2018-10-09 v2

Abstract

We prove that for pairwise co-prime numbers k1,,kd2k_1,\dots,k_d \geq 2 there does not exist any infinite set of positive integers AA such that the representation function rA(n)={(a1,,ad)Ad:k1a1++kdad=n}r_A (n) = \{ (a_1, \dots, a_d) \in A^d : k_1 a_1 + \dots + k_d a_d = n \} becomes constant for nn large enough. This result is a particular case of our main theorem, which poses a further step towards answering a question of S\'ark\"ozy and S\'os and widely extends a previous result of Cilleruelo and Ru\'e for bivariate linear forms.

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@article{arxiv.1802.07597,
  title  = {On a problem of S\'ark\"ozy and S\'os for multivariate linear forms},
  author = {Juanjo Rué and Christoph Spiegel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07597},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Added clarifications regarding the particular notion of limit used in the first part of the paper. 11 pages

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