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SUMSETS CONTAINING A TERM OF A SEQUENCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2023

MIN CHEN
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, PR China e-mail: 2395409935@qq.com
MIN TANG*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, PR China

Abstract

Let $S=\{s_{1}, s_{2}, \ldots \}$ be an unbounded sequence of positive integers with $s_{n+1}/s_{n}$ approaching $\alpha $ as $n\rightarrow \infty $ and let $\beta>\max (\alpha , 2)$. We show that for all sufficiently large positive integers l, if $A\subset [0, l]$ with $l\in A$, $\gcd A=1$ and $|A|\geq (2-{k}/{\lambda \beta })l/(\lambda +1)$, where $\lambda =\lceil {k}/{\beta }\rceil $, then $kA\cap S\neq \emptyset $ for $2<\beta \leq 3$ and $k\geq {2\beta }/{(\beta -2)}$ or for $\beta>3$ and $k\geq 3$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11071033, 12371003) and the Top Talents Project of Anhui Department of Education (Grant No. gxbjZD05).

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