Positive limiting proportions for prescribed missing sums and differences
Positive limiting proportions for prescribed missing sums and differences
For , let range over subsets of . For nonnegative integers and , define
assuming the limit exists. Since is symmetric about , only even can occur. The limiting-distribution conjecture. For every pair of nonnegative integers and with even, exists and is positive; moreover,
This refines the conjecture on the three aggregate limiting proportions by recording the exact numbers of missing sums and differences. The normalization asserts that these limiting frequencies account for all subsets asymptotically; the source also notes that the claim is known when .
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Primary source
Greg Martin and Kevin O'Bryant, “Many sets have more sums than differences”, arXiv:math/0608131 (2006).
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