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Sets of integers with no large sum-free subset

Authors :
Eberhard, Sean
Green, Ben
Manners, Freddie
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

Answering a question of P. Erdos from 1965, we show that for every eps>0 there is a set A of n integers with the following property: every subset A' of A with at least (1/3 + eps)n elements contains three distinct elements x,y,z with x + y = z.<br />Comment: 31 pages

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1301.4579
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2014.180.2.5