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2020/97/3-4 (14) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2020.8841 — pp. 475-481

On a property of additive complements

Authors: Jin-Hui Fang and Jie Ma

Abstract:

Two infinite sequences $A$ and $B$ are called infinite additive complements if every sufficiently large integer can be expressed as the sum of two elements taken from $A$ and $B$. Let $A(x)$ (resp. $B(x)$) be the number of elements in $A$ (resp. $B$) not exceeding $x$. Motivated by a recent result [3], the authors proved that, for infinite additive complements $A$, $B$, if $\limsup\frac{A(2x)B(2x)}{A(x)B(x)}\!<\!2$ or $\limsup\frac{A(2x)B(2x)}{A(x)B(x)}\!>\!4$, then $A(x)B(x)-x\rightarrow+\infty$ as $x\to+\infty$. Furthermore, the above constants $2$ and $4$ cannot be improved.

Keywords: additive complements, sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification: 11B13, 11B34