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A NOTE ON THE ERDŐS–GRAHAM THEOREM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2018

WENHUI WANG
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241003, China email [email protected]
MIN TANG*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241003, China email [email protected]
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Abstract

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Let ${\mathcal{A}}=\{a_{1}<a_{2}<\cdots \,\}$ be a set of nonnegative integers. Put $D({\mathcal{A}})=\gcd \{a_{k+1}-a_{k}:k=1,2,\ldots \}$. The set ${\mathcal{A}}$ is an asymptotic basis if there exists $h$ such that every sufficiently large integer is a sum of at most $h$ (not necessarily distinct) elements of ${\mathcal{A}}$. We prove that if the difference of consecutive integers of ${\mathcal{A}}$ is bounded, then ${\mathcal{A}}$ is an asymptotic basis if and only if there exists an integer $a\in {\mathcal{A}}$ such that $(a,D({\mathcal{A}}))=1$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

Footnotes

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11471017).

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