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Answer to a Question by Burr and Erdős on Restricted Addition, and Related Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

NORBERT HEGYVÁRI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Pázmány P st 1/C, PO Box 120, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary (e-mail: hegyvari@elte.hu)
FRANÇOIS HENNECART
Affiliation:
LaMUSE, Université de Saint-Étienne, 42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2, France (e-mail: francois.hennecart@univ-st-etienne.fr)
ALAIN PLAGNE
Affiliation:
Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz, UMR 7640 du CNRS, École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France (e-mail: plagne@math.polytechnique.fr)

Abstract

We study the gaps in the sequence of sums of h pairwise distinct elements of a given sequence in relation to the gaps in the sequence of sums of h not necessarily distinct elements of . We present several results on this topic. One of them gives a negative answer to a question by Burr and Erdős.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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