The density threshold conjecture for unrestricted sumsets

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Let A⊂NA\subset\mathbb{N}, and let d‾(A)\overline{\mathsf d}(A) and d‾(A)\underline{\mathsf d}(A) denote its upper and lower densities.

Density threshold conjecture. The following assertions hold:

  1. If d‾(A)>2/3\overline{\mathsf d}(A)>2/3, then there is an infinite set B⊂NB\subset\mathbb{N} such that B+B⊂AB+B\subset A.
  2. If d‾(A)>1/2\underline{\mathsf d}(A)>1/2, then there is an infinite set B⊂NB\subset\mathbb{N} such that B+B⊂AB+B\subset A.

Examples in the paper have upper density arbitrarily close to 2/32/3 and lower density arbitrarily close to 1/21/2 while avoiding such configurations, motivating the proposed sharp thresholds.

References

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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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