Dombi's obstruction conjecture for strict monotonicity of higher-fold representation functions
Dombi's obstruction conjecture for strict monotonicity of higher-fold representation functions
Let and let be an integer. Define the ordered -fold representation function by
The complement is co-infinite when it is infinite. Dombi's conjecture. If is infinite, then cannot be eventually strictly increasing. This conjecture proposes an obstruction to strict monotonicity for representation functions of sets with infinite complement; the provided text gives no resolution, while Dombi's earlier result shows that eventual non-strict increase can occur for suitable co-infinite sets when .
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Csaba Sándor and Quan-Hui Yang, “On the Monotonicity of Higher-Fold Representation Functions”, arXiv:2606.28849 (2026).
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