On a problem of Nathanson on minimal asymptotic bases (Q2004934)

This paper deals with a new construction of minimal asymptotic bases. In a brief survey of this research, the main attention is given to the concept of minimal asymptotic bases and to Nathanson's results in this topic. The author gives the following description of the present investigations: ``Let \(\mathbb N\) denote the set of all nonnegative integers and \(A\) be a subset of \(N\). Let \(h\) be an integer with \(h\ge 2\). Let \(n \in\mathbb N\) and \(r_h(A, n) =\sharp\{(a_1, \dots , a_h) \in A^h : a_1 +\dots + a_h = n\}\). The set \(A\) is called an asymptotic basis of order \(h\) if \(r_h(A, n) \ge 1\) for all sufficiently large integer \(n\). An asymptotic basis \(A\) of order \(h\) is minimal if no proper subset of \(A\) is an asymptotic basis of order \(h\). In 1988, Nathanson posed a problem on minimal asymptotic bases of order \(h\). Recently, Chen and Tang showed that the answer to the problem is negative for \(h \ge 4\) by constructing a special partition of \(\mathbb N\). In this paper, we give a new construction of minimal asymptotic bases. This construction expands our understanding on the problem of Nathanson.''