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Sidon Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

H. L. Abbott*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G1
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Abstract

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Denote by g(n) the largest integer m such that every set of integers of size n contains a subset of size m whose pairwise sums are distinct. It is shown that g(n) > cn1/2 for any constant c < 2/25 and all sufficiently large n.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1990

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