A generalization of a theorem of Erdős–Rényi to $m$-fold sums and differences

Kathryn E. Hare¹ ; Shuntaro Yamagishi¹

¹ Department of Pure Mathematics University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

Acta Arithmetica, Tome 166 (2014) no. 1, pp. 55-67.

Résumé

Let $m\geq 2$ be a positive integer. Given a set $E(\omega )\subseteq \mathbb {N}$ we define $r_{N}^{(m)}(\omega )$ to be the number of ways to represent $N\in \mathbb {Z}$ as a combination of sums and differences of $m$ distinct elements of $E(\omega )$. In this paper, we prove the existence of a “thick” set $E(\omega )$ and a positive constant $K$ such that $r_{N}^{(m)}(\omega ) K$ for all $N\in \mathbb {Z}$. This is a generalization of a known theorem by Erdős and Rényi. We also apply our results to harmonic analysis, where we prove the existence of certain thin sets.

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DOI : 10.4064/aa166-1-5

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