On sets with sum and difference structure

Abstract: For nonempty sets

A, B

of nonnegative integers and an integer

n

, let

r_{A, B} (n)

be the number of representations of

n

as

a + b

and

d_{A, B} (n)

be the number of representations of

n

as

a - b

, where

a i n A, b i n B

. In this paper, we determine the sets

A, B

such that

r_{A, B} (n) = 1

for every nonnegative integer

n

. We also consider the emph{difference} structure and prove that: there exist sets

A

and

B

of nonnegative integers such that

r_{A, B} (n) g e 1

for all large

n

,

A (x) B (x) = (1 + o (1)) x

and for any given nonnegative integer

c

, we have

d_{A, B} (n) = c

for infinitely many positive integers

n

. Other related results are also contained.

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