Cross representations of additive complements of $r$-th powers

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Main Authors: Ding, Yuchen, Sándor, Csaba, Zhang, Zihan
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author Ding, Yuchen
Sándor, Csaba
Zhang, Zihan
author_facet Ding, Yuchen
Sándor, Csaba
Zhang, Zihan
contents Let $\mathbb{N}$ be the set of natural numbers and $\mathcal{S}_r=\big\{1^r, 2^r, 3^r,\cdots\big\}$ the set of $r$-th powers, where $r\ge 2$ is a natural number. Let $\mathcal{W}_r$ be an additive complement of $\mathcal{S}_r$ and $$ f_r(n)=\#\big\{(w,m^r)\in \mathcal{W}\times \mathcal{S}_r: n=w+m^r\big\}. $$ Motivated by a 1993 conjecture of Cilleruelo, we show that $$ \sum_{n\le N}f_r(n)-N\gg_r N^{1-\frac{1}{r}}. $$ Previously, the bound was only proved for $r=2$. In the case $r=2$, the lower bound above can be made more explicit as $$ \sum_{n\le N}f_2(n)-N\gg N^{1/2}(\log N)^δ $$ for some absolute constant $δ>0$, which improves a $\log$ factor upon a recent result of Ding, Sun, Wang and Xia.
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spellingShingle Cross representations of additive complements of $r$-th powers
Ding, Yuchen
Sándor, Csaba
Zhang, Zihan
Number Theory
Let $\mathbb{N}$ be the set of natural numbers and $\mathcal{S}_r=\big\{1^r, 2^r, 3^r,\cdots\big\}$ the set of $r$-th powers, where $r\ge 2$ is a natural number. Let $\mathcal{W}_r$ be an additive complement of $\mathcal{S}_r$ and $$ f_r(n)=\#\big\{(w,m^r)\in \mathcal{W}\times \mathcal{S}_r: n=w+m^r\big\}. $$ Motivated by a 1993 conjecture of Cilleruelo, we show that $$ \sum_{n\le N}f_r(n)-N\gg_r N^{1-\frac{1}{r}}. $$ Previously, the bound was only proved for $r=2$. In the case $r=2$, the lower bound above can be made more explicit as $$ \sum_{n\le N}f_2(n)-N\gg N^{1/2}(\log N)^δ $$ for some absolute constant $δ>0$, which improves a $\log$ factor upon a recent result of Ding, Sun, Wang and Xia.
title Cross representations of additive complements of $r$-th powers
topic Number Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15407