Erdős's additive irreducibility conjecture for perturbed squares
Let be obtained from the set of positive squares by deleting some of its elements up to and adding some positive integers, with the total number of changed elements being . Erdős's conjecture. If and we change elements of the set of squares up to , then the new set is always additively irreducible. Here a set is additively irreducible when it cannot be written as a sumset with both having size at least . The conjecture remains open; Sárközy and Szemerédi proved it under the smaller perturbation bound for every .
References
Primary source
Chi Hoi Yip, “Multiplicative irreducibility of small perturbations of the set of shifted k-th powers”, arXiv:2501.16620 (2025).
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