Department of Mathematics, Lehman College (CUNY), Bronx, New York 10468
Abstract:
Erdos and Szemerédi conjectured that if is a set of positive integers, then there must be at least integers that can be written as the sum or product of two elements of . Erdos and Szemerédi proved that this number must be at least for some and . In this paper it is proved that the result holds for .