Convex sequences may have thin additive bases (Q2420483)

The authors prove that there is a \(c>0\) such that for any \(m\) there is a set \(A\) of size \(n>m\) such that the sumset \(A+A\) contains a convex set of size \(cn^2\). This result answers in the affirmative a question posed by P. Hegarty. Here, a set \(A\subset \mathbb{R}\) is convex if the gaps between consecutive elements of \(A\) are strictly increasing.