The cardinality of a set containing the pairwise sums of a fixed number of integers

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Main Author: van Doorn, Wouter
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contents Revisiting a $50$-year-old estimate of Choi, Erdős and Szemerédi, we show that if $A \subseteq \{1, 2, \ldots, 2n\}$ satisfies $|A| \ge n + 1.2 \cdot 10^8$, then there exist five distinct integers whose pairwise sums are all contained in $A$. In order to guarantee pairwise sums of three or four integers instead, we show that one can replace the constant $1.2 \cdot 10^8$ by $1$ or $3$ respectively, which are both optimal.
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spellingShingle The cardinality of a set containing the pairwise sums of a fixed number of integers
van Doorn, Wouter
Number Theory
Revisiting a $50$-year-old estimate of Choi, Erdős and Szemerédi, we show that if $A \subseteq \{1, 2, \ldots, 2n\}$ satisfies $|A| \ge n + 1.2 \cdot 10^8$, then there exist five distinct integers whose pairwise sums are all contained in $A$. In order to guarantee pairwise sums of three or four integers instead, we show that one can replace the constant $1.2 \cdot 10^8$ by $1$ or $3$ respectively, which are both optimal.
title The cardinality of a set containing the pairwise sums of a fixed number of integers
topic Number Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00040