Generalizations of some results about the regularity properties of an additive representation function (Q2416454)

Let \(A=\{a_1,a_2,\ldots \}\) be an infinite sequence of non-negative integers such that \(a_i < a_{i+1}\) for every \(i\). For a fixed integer \(k \ge 2\) and for \(n=0,1,2,\cdots\), let \(R_{A,k}(n)\) denote the number of solutions of \[ a_{i_1}+a_{i_2}+\ldots+a_{i_k}= n, \quad a_{i_j}\in A.\] Let \(A(n) = \displaystyle \sum_{\substack{a\in A \\ a\le n}}1\). Let \(B(A,N)\) denote the number of blocks formed by consecutive integers up to \(N\) in \(A\). For a given sequence \(s_0, s_1,\ldots \) of real numbers, let \(\Delta_l s_n\) denote the \(l\)-th difference of the sequence, defined by \(\Delta_1s_n = s_{n+1} - s_{n}\) and \(\Delta_l s_n= \Delta_1 (\Delta_{l-1}s_n)\). In a series of papers Erdős, Sárközy and Sós studied the regularity properties of the function \(R_{A,2}(n)\). They proved that if \(\displaystyle \lim_{N \rightarrow \infty}\frac{B(A,N)}{ \sqrt{N}}= \infty\) then \(\left\vert \Delta_{1}(R_{A,2}(n)\right\vert \) cannot be bounded. They also showed that the above result is nearly best possible. Sárközy extended the above results to the finite set of residue classes modulo a fixed \(m\). The result for any \(k > 2\) and \(l \le k\) was given by \textit{S. Z. Kiss} [Period. Math. Hung. 51, No. 2, 31--35 (2005; Zbl 1111.11008)]. It was shown in \textit{S. Z. Kiss} [Stud. Sci. Math. Hung. 48, No. 1, 93--103 (2011; Zbl 1240.11030)] that this result is nearly best possible. In this paper \(R_{A,2}(n)\) has been considered to get further generalizations of this problem.