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Let $F_{k,d}(n)$ be the maximal size of a set ${A}\subseteq [n]$ such that the equation \[a_1a_2\dots a_k=x^d, \; a_1

Denote by $N(n)$ the number of integer solutions $(x_1,\,x_2,\ldots ,x_n)$ of the equation $x_1+x_2+\ldots+x_n=x_1x_2\cdot\ldots\cdot x_n$ such that $x_1\ge x_2\ge\ldots\ge x_n\ge 1$, $n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$. The aim of this paper are is twofold: first we present an asymptotic formula for $\sum\limits_{2\le n\le x}N(n)$, then we verify that the counting function $N(n)$ takes very large value compared to its average value., Comment: 7 pages

Let $\mathbb{N}$ be the set of all nonnegative integers. For $S\subseteq \mathbb{N}$ and $n\in \mathbb{N}$, let $R_S(n)$ denote the number of solutions of the equation $n=s+s'$, $s, s'\in S$, $s

In this paper we prove that if $A$ and $B$ are infinite subsets of positive integers such that every positive integer $n$ can be written as $n=ab$, $a\in A$, $b\in B$, then $\displaystyle \lim_{x\to \infty}\frac{A(x)B(x)}{x}=\infty $. We also prove many other results about sets like this., Comment: 16 pages

Let $k\ge 2$ be an integer and let $A$ be a set of nonnegative integers. For a $k$-tuple of positive integers $\underline{\lambda} = (\lambda_{1}, \dots{} ,\lambda_{k})$ with $1 \le \lambda_{1} < \lambda_{2} < \dots{} < \lambda_{k}$, we define the additive representation function $R_{A,\underline{\lambda}}(n) = |\{(a_{1}, \dots{} ,a_{k})\in A^{k}: \lambda_{1}a_{1} + \dots{} + \lambda_{k}a_{k} = n\}|$. For $k = 2$, Moser constructed a set $A$ of nonnegative integers such that $R_{A,\underline{\lambda}}(n) = 1$ holds for every nonnegative integer $n$. In this paper we characterize all the $k$-tuples $\underline{\lambda}$ and the sets $A$ of nonnegative integers with $R_{A,\underline{\lambda}}(n) = 1$ for every integer $n\ge 0$.

Let $k\ge 2$ be an integer and let $A$ be a set of nonnegative integers. The representation function $R_{A,k}(n)$ for the set $A$ is the number of representations of a nonnegative integer $n$ as the sum of $k$ terms from $A$. Let $A(n)$ denote the counting function of $A$.Bell and Shallit recently gave a counterexample for a conjecture of Dombi and proved that if $A(n)=o(n^{\frac{k-2}{k}-\epsilon})$ for some $\epsilon>0$, then $R_{\mathbb{N}\setminus A,k}(n)$ is eventually strictly increasing. In this paper, we improve this result to $A(n)=O(n^{\frac{k-2}{k-1}})$. We also give an example to show that this bound is best possible., Comment: 11 pages

For integer $h\geq2$ and $A\subseteq\mathbb{N}$, we define $hA$ to be all integers which can be written as a sum of $h$ elements of $A$. The set $A$ is called an asymptotic basis of order $h$ if $n\in hA$ for all sufficiently large integers $n$. An asymptotic basis $A$ of order $h$ is minimal if no proper subset of $A$ is an asymptotic basis of order $h$. For $W\subseteq\mathbb{N}$, denote by $\mathcal{F}^*(W)$ the set of all finite, nonempty subsets of $W$. Let $A(W)$ be the set of all numbers of the form $\sum_{f \in F} 2^f$, where $F \in \mathcal{F}^*(W)$. In this paper, we give some characterizations of the partitions $\mathbb{N}=W_1\cup\cdots \cup W_h$ with the property that $A=A(W_1)\cup\cdots \cup A(W_{h})$ is a minimal asymptotic basis of order $h$. This generalizes a result of Chen and Chen, recent result of Ling and Tang, and also recent result of Sun., Comment: 8 pages

Two infinite sets $A$ and $B$ of non-negative integers are called \emph{perfect additive complements of non-negative integers}, if every non-negative integer can be uniquely expressed as the sum of elements from $A$ and $B$. In this paper, we define a Lagrange-like spectrum of the perfect additive complements ($\mathfrak{L} $ for short). As a main result, we obtain the smallest accumulation point of the set $\mathfrak{L} $ and prove that the set $\mathfrak{L} $ is closed. Other related results and problems are also contained.

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

Two sets $A,B$ of positive integers are called \emph{exact additive complements}, if $A+B$ contains all sufficiently large integers and $A(x)B(x)/x\rightarrow1$. Let $A=\{a_1

Two sets of nonnegative integers $A=\{a_1\varepsilon\sqrt{x}$ and $B(x)>\varepsilon\sqrt{x}$ for some $\varepsilon>0$, which answered a problem posed by Erd\H os and Graham. In this paper, following Erd\H{o}s and Freud's work, we explore further properties for disjoint sets. As a main result, we prove that, for disjoint sets $A$ and $B$, assume that $\{x_1

For nonempty sets $A,B$ of nonnegative integers and an integer $n$, let $r_{A,B}(n)$ be the number of representations of $n$ as $a+b$ and $d_{A,B}(n)$ be the number of representations of $n$ as $a-b$, where $a\in A, b\in B$. In this paper, we determine the sets $A,B$ such that $r_{A,B}(n)=1$ for every nonnegative integer $n$. We also consider the \emph{difference} structure and prove that: there exist sets $A$ and $B$ of nonnegative integers such that $r_{A,B}(n)\ge 1$ for all large $n$, $A(x)B(x)=(1+o(1))x$ and for any given nonnegative integer $c$, we have $d_{A,B}(n)=c$ for infinitely many positive integers $n$. Other related results are also contained., Comment: 7 pages

In this paper, we study how dense a multiplicative basis of order $h$ for $\mathbb{Z}^+\!$ can be, improving on earlier results. Upon introducing the notion of a \textit{multiplicative complement}, we present some tight density bounds., Comment: 20 pages

Let $h,k \ge 2$ be integers. A set $A$ of positive integers is called asymptotic basis of order $k$ if every large enough positive integer can be written as the sum of $k$ terms from $A$. A set of positive integers $A$ is said to be a $B_{h}[g]$-set if every positive integer can be written as the sum of $h$ terms from $A$ at most $g$ different ways. In this paper we prove the existence of $B_{h}[1]$ sets which are asymptotic bases of order $2h$ by using probabilistic methods., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.10349

Let $\varphi (x_{1}, \ldots, x_{h})=c_{1} x_{1}+\cdots+c_{h} x_{h}$ be a linear form with coefficients in a field $\mathbf{F}$, and let $V$ be a vector space over $\mathbf{F}$. A nonempty subset $A$ of $V$ is a $\varphi$-Sidon set if $\varphi\left(a_{1}, \ldots, a_{h}\right)=\varphi\left(a_{1}^{\prime}, \ldots, a_{h}^{\prime}\right)$ implies $\left(a_{1}, \ldots, a_{h}\right)=$ $\left(a_{1}^{\prime}, \ldots, a_{h}^{\prime}\right)$ for all $h$-tuples $\left(a_{1}, \ldots, a_{h}\right) \in A^{h}$ and $\left(a_{1}^{\prime}, \ldots, a_{h}^{\prime}\right) \in A^{h}$. We call $A$ a polynomial perturbation of $B$ if for some $r>0$ and positive integer $k_0$, $|a_k-b_k|< k^r$ holds for all integers $k \geq k_0$. In this paper, for a given set $B$, we prove that there exists a $\varphi$-Sidon set $A$ of integers that is a polynomial perturbation of $B$. This gives an affirmative answer to a recent problem of Nathanson. Some other results are also proved., Comment: 6 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2101.01034

Let $\mathbb{N}$ be the set of all nonnegative integers. For $S\subseteq \mathbb{N}$ and $n\in \mathbb{N}$, let $R_S(n)$ denote the number of solutions of the equation $n=s_1+s_2$, $s_1,s_2\in S$ and $s_1

Let $k \ge 2$ be an integer. We say a set $A$ of positive integers is an asymptotic basis of order $k$ if every large enough positive integer can be represented as the sum of $k$ terms from $A$. A set of positive integers $A$ is called Sidon set if all the two terms sums formed by the elements of $A$ are different. Many years ago P. Erd\H{o}s, A. S\'ark\"ozy and V. T. S\'os asked whether there exists a Sidon set which is asymptotic basis of order $3$. In this paper we prove the existence of a Sidon set $A$ with positive lower density of the three fold sumset $A + A + A$ by using probabilistic methods., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1304.5749

Two infinite sets $A$ and $B$ of nonnegative integers are called additive complements if their sumset contains every nonnegative integer. In 1964, Danzer constructed infinite additive complements $A$ and $B$ with $A(x)B(x) = (1 + o(1))x$ as $x \rightarrow \infty$, where $A(x)$ and $B(x)$ denote the counting function of the sets $A$ and $B$, respectively. In this paper we solve a problem of Chen and Fang by extending the construction of Danzer.

For a set $A$ of non-negative integers, let $R_A(n)$ denote the number of solutions to the equation $n=a+a'$ with $a$, $a'\in A$. Denote by $\chi_A(n)$ the characteristic function of $A$. Let $b_n>0$ be a sequence satisfying $\limsup_{n\to \infty}b_n<1$. In this paper, we prove some Erd\H os--Fuchs-type theorems about the error terms appearing in approximation formul\ae\ for $R_A(n)=\sum_{k=0}^n\chi_A(k)\chi_A(n-k)$ and $\sum_{n=0}^NR_A(n)$ having principal terms $\sum_{k=0}^nb_kb_{n-k}$ and $\sum_{n=0}^N\sum_{k=0}^nb_kb_{n-k}$, respectively., Comment: 13 pages

For $h \ge 2$ and an infinite set of positive integers $A$, let $R_{A,h}(n)$ denote the number of solutions of the equation $a_{1} + a_{2} + \dots{} + a_{h} = n, a_{1} \in A, \dots{} ,a_{h} \in A, a_{1} < a_{2} < \dots{} < a_{h}.$ In this paper we prove the existence of a set $A$ formed by perfect powers with almost possible maximal density such that $R_{A,h}(n)$ is bounded by using probabilistic methods.

For a set $A$ of nonnegative integers, let $R_2(A,n)$ denote the number of solutions to $n=a+a'$ with $a,a'\in A$, $a

Let $h,k \ge 2$ be integers. We say a set $A$ of positive integers is an asymptotic basis of order $k$ if every large enough positive integer can be represented as the sum of $k$ terms from $A$. A set of positive integers $A$ is called $B_{h}[g]$ set if all positive integers can be represented as the sum of $h$ terms from $A$ at most $g$ times. In this paper we prove the existence of $B_{h}[1]$ sets which are asymptotic bases of order $2h+1$ by using probabilistic methods.

For a set $A$ of nonnegative integers, let $R_2(A,n)$ and $R_3(A,n)$ denote the number of solutions to $n=a+a'$ with $a,a'\in A$, $a

We resolve the Ramsey problem for $\{x,y,z:x+y=p(z)\}$ for all polynomials $p$ over $\mathbb{Z}$. In particular, we characterise all polynomials that are $2$-Ramsey, that is, those $p(z)$ such that any $2$-colouring of $\mathbb{N}$ contains infinitely many monochromatic solutions for $x+y=p(z)$. For polynomials that are not $2$-Ramsey, we characterise all $2$-colourings of $\mathbb{N}$ that are not $2$-Ramsey, revealing that certain divisibility barrier is the only obstruction to $2$-Ramseyness for $x+y=p(z)$., Comment: 21 pages

Let $A = \{a_{1},a_{2},\dots{}\}$ $(a_{1} < a_{2} < \dots{})$ be an infinite sequence of nonnegative integers, and let $R_{A,2}(n)$ denote the number of solutions of $a_{x}+a_{y}=n$ $(a_{x},a_{y}\in A)$. P. Erd\H{o}s, A. S\'ark\"ozy and V. T. S\'os proved that if $\lim_{N\to\infty}\frac{B(A,N)}{\sqrt{N}}=+\infty$ then $|\Delta_{1}(R_{A,2}(n))|$ cannot be bounded, where $B(A,N)$ denotes the number of blocks formed by consecutive integers in $A$ up to $N$ and $\Delta_{l}$ denotes the $l$-th difference. Their result was extended to $\Delta_{l}(R_{A,2}(n))$ for any fixed $l\ge2$. In this paper we give further generalizations of this problem.

Let $\mathbb{N}$ denote the set of all nonnegative integers. Let $k\ge 3$ be an integer and $A_{0} = \{a_{1}, \dots{}, a_{t}\}$ $(a_{1} < \ldots< a_{t})$ be a nonnegative set which does not contain an arithmetic progression of length $k$. We denote $A = \{a_{1}, a_{2}, \dots{}\}$ defined by the following greedy algorithm: if $l \ge t$ and $a_{1}, \dots{}, a_{l}$ have already been defined, then $a_{l+1}$ is the smallest integer $a > a_{l}$ such that $\{a_{1}, \dots{}, a_{l}\} \cup \{a\}$ also does not contain a $k$-term arithmetic progression. This sequence $A$ is called the Stanley sequence of order $k$ generated by $A_{0}$. In this paper, we prove some results about various generalizations of the Stanley sequence.

We prove that if $A$ is an infinite multiplicative Sidon set, then $\liminf\limits_{n\to \infty}\frac{|A(n)|-\pi (n)}{\frac{n^{3/4}}{(\log n)^3}}<\infty$ and construct an infinite multiplicative Sidon set satisfying $\liminf\limits_{n\to \infty}\frac{|A(n)|-\pi (n)}{\frac{n^{3/4}}{(\log n)^3}}>0$.

Let $\mathbb{Z}^{+}$ be the set of positive integers. Let $C_{k}$ denote all subsets of $\mathbb{Z}^{+}$ such that neither of them contains $k + 1$ pairwise coprime integers and $C_k(n)=C_k\cap \{1,2,\ldots,n\}$. Let $f(n, k) = \text{max}_{A \in C_{k}(n)}|A|$, where $|A|$ denotes the number of elements of the set $A$. Let $E_k(n)$ be the set of positive integers not exceeding $n$ which are divisible by at least one of the primes $p_{1}, \dots{}, p_{k}$, where $p_{i}$ denote the $i$th prime number. In 1962, Erd\H{o}s conjectured that $f(n, k) = |E(n,k)|$ for every $n \ge p_{k}$. Recently Chen and Zhou proved some results about this conjecture. In this paper we solve an open problem of Chen and Zhou and prove several related results about the conjecture., Comment: 19 pages

For a set $A\subseteq \mathbb{N}$ and $n\in \mathbb{N}$, let $R_A(n)$ denote the number of ordered pairs $(a,a')\in A\times A$ such that $a+a'=n$. The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Tur\'an conjecture says that, if $R_A(n)\ge 1$ for all sufficiently large integers $n$, then the representation function $R_A(n)$ cannot be bounded. For any positive integer $m$, Ruzsa's number $R_m$ is defined to be the least positive integer $r$ such that there exists a set $A\subseteq \mathbb{Z}_m$ with $1\le R_A(n)\le r$ for all $n\in \mathbb{Z}_m$. In 2008, Chen proved that $R_{m}\le 288$ for all positive integers $m$. Recently the authors proved that $R_m\ge 6$ for all integers $m\ge 36$. In this paper, we prove that if $A\subseteq \mathbb{Z}_m$ satisfies $R_A(n)\le 5$ for all $n\in \mathbb{Z}_m$, then $|\{g:g\in \mathbb{Z}_m, R_A(g)=0\}|\ge \frac{1}{4}m-\sqrt{5m}$. This improves a recent result of Li and Chen. We also give upper bounds of $|\{g:g\in \mathbb{Z}_m, R_A(g)=i\}|$ for $i=2,4$., Comment: 9 pages

Let $C,W\subseteq \mathbb{Z}$. If $C+W=\mathbb{Z}$, then the set $C$ is called an additive complement to $W$ in $\mathbb{Z}$. If no proper subset of $C$ is an additive complement to $W$, then $C$ is called a minimal additive complement. Let $X\subseteq \mathbb{N}$. If there exists a positive integer $T$ such that $x+T\in X$ for all sufficiently large integers $x\in X$, then we call $X$ eventually periodic. In this paper, we study the existence of a minimal complement to $W$ when $W$ is eventually periodic or not. This partially answers a problem of Nathanson., Comment: 13 pages

For a set of nonnegative integers $A$, denote by $R_{A}(n)$ the number of unordered representations of the integer $n$ as the sum of two different terms from $A$. In this paper we partially describe the structure of the sets, which have coinciding representation functions.

For a set $A\subseteq \mathbb{N}$ and $n\in \mathbb{N}$, let $R_A(n)$ denote the number of ordered pairs $(a,a')\in A\times A$ such that $a+a'=n$. The celebrated Erd\H{o}s-Tur\'{a}n conjecture says that, if $R_A(n)\ge 1$ for all sufficiently large integers $n$, then the representation function $R_A(n)$ cannot be bounded. For any positive integer $m$, Ruzsa's number $R_m$ is defined to be the least positive integer $r$ such that there exists a set $A\subseteq \mathbb{Z}_m$ with $1\le R_A(n)\le r$ for all $n\in \mathbb{Z}_m$. In 2008, Chen proved that $R_{m}\le 288$ for all positive integers $m$. In this paper, we prove that $R_m\ge 6$ for all integers $m\ge 36$. We also determine all values of $R_m$ when $m\le 35$.

For a set of nonnegative integers $S$ let $R_{S}(n)$ denote the number of unordered representations of the integer $n$ as the sum of two different terms from $S$. In this paper we focus on partitions of the natural numbers into two sets affording identical representation functions. We solve a recent problem of Lev and Chen., Comment: Theorem 7. was cancelled from the previous version

In this paper we investigate how small the density of a multiplicative basis of order $h$ can be in $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$ and in $\mathbb{Z}^+$. Furthermore, a related problem of Erd\H os is also studied: How dense can a set of integers be, if none of them divides the product of $h$ others?

Let $A$ and $B$ be sets of nonnegative integers. For a positive integer $n$ let $R_{A}(n)$ denote the number of representations of $n$ as the sum of two terms from $A$. Let $\displaystyle s_{A}(x) = \max_{n \le x}R_{A}(n)$ and $\displaystyle d_{A,B}(x) = \max_{\hbox{t: $a_{t} \le x$ or $b_{t} \le x$}}|a_{t} - b_{t}|$. In this paper we study the connection between $s_{A}(x)$, $s_{B}(x)$ and $d_{A,B}(x)$. We improve a result of Haddad and Helou about the Erd\H{o}s - Tur\'an conjecture.

We say the sets of nonnegative integers A and B are additive complements if their sum contains all sufficiently large integers. In this paper we prove a conjecture of Chen and Fang about additive complement of a finite set.

In this paper we prove the existence of Sidon sets which are asymptotic bases of order 4 by using probabilistic methods.