Direct and inverse theorems on signed sumsets of integers (Q1627951)

In the paper under review, the authors consider the following generalization of iterated sumsets \[ h_{\pm} A:=\left\{\Sigma_{i=0}^{k-1} \lambda_{i} a_{i}:\left(\lambda_{0}, \ldots, \lambda_{k-1}\right) \in \mathbb{Z}^{k}, \Sigma_{i=0}^{k-1}\left|\lambda_{i}\right|=h\right\}, \quad h\ge 2. \] They obtain direct and inverse results on cardinality of such sumsets for sets of positive integers. E.g., they prove that \(|h_{\pm} A| \ge 2(hk-h+1)\) and \(|h_{\pm} A| = 2(hk-h+1)\) iff \(A=d\cdot \{1,3,\dots,2|A|-1\}\). Also, they consider other situations as \(0\in A\), \(h\ge 3\) and so on.