Unique representations of integers by linear forms

Abstract: Let

k g e 2

be an integer and let

A

be a set of nonnegative integers. For a

k

-tuple of positive integers

u n d e r l i n e l a m b d a = (l a m b d a_{1}, d o t s, l a m b d a_{k})

with

1 l e l a m b d a_{1} < l a m b d a_{2} < d o t s < l a m b d a_{k}

, we define the additive representation function

R_{A, u n d e r l i n e l a m b d a} (n) = | (a_{1}, d o t s, a_{k}) i n A^{k} : l a m b d a_{1} a_{1} + d o t s + l a m b d a_{k} a_{k} = n |

. For

k = 2

, Moser constructed a set

A

of nonnegative integers such that

R_{A, u n d e r l i n e l a m b d a} (n) = 1

holds for every nonnegative integer

n

. In this paper we characterize all the

k

-tuples

u n d e r l i n e l a m b d a

and the sets

A

of nonnegative integers with

R_{A, u n d e r l i n e l a m b d a} (n) = 1

for every integer

n g e 0

.

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