Bourgain-type maximal sum-free set conjecture

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Let AA be a set of NN positive integers. A subset ΩR/Z\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} is maximal sum-free if it is sum-free and has measure 1/31/3. Let \mathbbm1Ω\mathbbm{1}_{\Omega} denote its characteristic function. Maximal sum-free set conjecture. There is a function ω(N)\omega(N)\to\infty as NN\to\infty such that for every set AA of NN positive integers, there exists a maximal sum-free set ΩR/Z\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} satisfying

maxxR/ZnA(\mathbbm1Ω13)(nx)=ω(N).\max_{x\in\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}}\sum_{n\in A}\left(\mathbbm{1}_{\Omega}-\frac{1}{3}\right)(nx)=\omega(N).

The source states that this conjecture would imply the preceding conjecture. Existing estimates give only bounded improvements, such as the (N+2)/3(N+2)/3 lower bound attributed to Bourgain, so the asserted unbounded improvement remains open.

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Yifan Jing and Shukun Wu, “A note on the largest sum-free sets of integers”, arXiv:2011.09963 (2023).

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