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On function $SX$ of additive complements

Number Theory 2022-10-19 v1

Abstract

Two sets A,BA,B of nonnegative integers are called \emph{additive complements}, if all sufficiently large integers can be expressed as the sum of two elements from AA and BB. We further call A,BA,B \emph{perfect additive complements} if every nonnegative integer can be uniquely expressed as the sum of two elements from AA and BB. Let A(x)A(x) be the counting function of AA. In this paper, we focus on the function SXSX, where SX=lim supxmax{A(x),B(x)}xSX=\limsup_{x\rightarrow\infty}\frac{\max\{A(x),B(x)\}}{\sqrt{x}} was introduced by Erd\H{o}s and Freud in 1984. As a main result, we determine the value of SXSX for perfect additive complements and further fix the infimum. We also give the absolute lower bound of SXSX for additive complements.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.09680,
  title  = {On function $SX$ of additive complements},
  author = {Jin-Hui Fang and Csaba Sándor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09680},
  year   = {2022}
}
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