Essentialness in additive bases

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2006.06.002zbMATH Open1114.11011arXiv0802.1205OpenAlexW2058629509MaRDI QIDQ868906FDOQ868906

Authors: Bruno Deschamps, Bakir Farhi 

Publication date: 26 February 2007

Published in: Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we study the notion of essential subset of an additive basis, that is to say the minimal finite subsets $P$ of a basis $A$ such that $AsetminusP$ doesn't remains a basis. The existence of an essential subset for a basis is equivalent for this basis to be included, for almost all elements, in an arithmetic non-trivial progression. We show that for every basis $A$ there exists an arithmetic progression with a biggest common difference containing $A$. Having this common difference $a$ we are able to give an upper bound to the number of essential subsets of $A$: this is the radical's length of $a$ (in particular there is always many finite essential subsets in a basis). In the case of essential subsets of cardinality 1 (essential elements) we introduce a way to "dessentialize" a basis. As an application, we definitively improve the earlier result of Deschamps and Grekos giving an upper bound of the number of the essential elements of a basis. More precisely, we show that for all basis $A$ of order $h$, the number $s$ of essential elements of $A$ satisfy $sleqcsqrtfrachlogh$ where $c=30sqrtfraclog15641564simeq2,05728$, and we show that this inequality is best possible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1205

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zbMATH Keywords

additive basesessential parts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Goldbach-type theorems; other additive questions involving primes (11P32) Additive bases, including sumsets (11B13)

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