Erdős's bounded finite-sums conjecture for positive-density sets

Let AosubsetNA oりsubset\mathbb{N} have positive upper Banach density. For kNk\in\mathbb{N}, write

FSk(B)={nFn:FB, 0<Fk}.\operatorname{FS}_{\leq k}(B)=\left\{\sum_{n\in F}n:F\subset B,\ 0<|F|\leq k\right\}.

Erdős's conjecture. For every kNk\in\mathbb{N}, there exist an integer t0t\geq0 and an infinite set BNB\subset\mathbb{N} such that

FSk(B)At.\operatorname{FS}_{\leq k}(B)\subset A-t.

The case k=2k=2 is proved, while the conjecture remains open for k3k\geq3. The claim is a density version of Hindman's theorem and is designed to avoid known obstructions to unrestricted sumsets.

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Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian K. Richter and Donald Robertson, “Problems on infinite sumset configurations in the integers and beyond”, arXiv:2311.06197 (2025).

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