Counterexamples to a conjecture of Dombi in additive number theory

Acta Mathematica Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica - Tập 169 - Trang 562-565 - 2023
J. P. Bell1, J. Shallit1
1University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Tóm tắt

We disprove a 2002 conjecture of Dombi from additive number theory. More precisely, we find examples of sets $$A \subset \mathbb{N}$$ with the property that $$\mathbb{N} \setminus A$$ is infinite, but the sequence $$n \rightarrow |\{ (a,b,c): \ n=a+b+c $$ and $$ a,b,c \in A \}|$$ counting the number of $$3$$ -compositions using elements of $$A$$ only, is strictly increasing.

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