Supersequences, rearrangements of sequences, and the spectrum of bases in additive number theory |
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Authors: | Melvyn B. Nathanson |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Mathematics, Lehman College (CUNY), Bronx, NY 10468, USA b CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 10016, USA |
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Abstract: | The set of nonnegative integers is an asymptotic basis of order h if every sufficiently large integer can be represented as the sum of h elements of A. If an∼αnh for some real number α>0, then α is called an additive eigenvalue of order h. The additive spectrum of order h is the set N(h) consisting of all additive eigenvalues of order h. It is proved that there is a positive number ηh?1/h! such that N(h)=(0,ηh) or N(h)=(0,ηh]. The proof uses results about the construction of supersequences of sequences with prescribed asymptotic growth, and also about the asymptotics of rearrangements of infinite sequences. For example, it is proved that there does not exist a strictly increasing sequence of integers such that bn∼n2 and B contains a subsequence such that bnk∼k3. |
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Keywords: | 11B05 11B13 11B75 11J25 11N37 26D15 |
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