Some new thin sets of integers in harmonic analysis

We randomly construct various subsets A of the integers which have both smallness and largeness properties. They are small since they are very close, in various senses, to Sidon sets: the continuous functions with spectrum in Λ have uniformly convergent series, and their Fourier coefficients are in ℓ_p for all p > 1; moreover, all the Lebesgue spaces L _Λ ^q are equal forq < +∞. On the other hand, they are large in the sense that they are dense in the Bohr group and that the space of the bounded functions with spectrum in Λ is nonseparable. So these sets are very different from the thin sets of integers previously known.