Ruzsa’s Problem on Bi-Sidon Sets
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Pach, János
Zakharov, Dmitrii
Date Issued
April 8, 2025
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Combinatorica
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Pach, J., Zakharov, D. Ruzsa’s Problem on Bi-Sidon Sets. Combinatorica 45, 26 (2025).
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Abstract
A subset S of real numbers is called bi-Sidon if it is a Sidon set with respect to both addition and multiplication, i.e., if all pairwise sums and all pairwise products of elements of S are distinct. Imre Ruzsa asked the following question: What is the maximum number f(N) such that every set S of N real numbers contains a bi-Sidon subset of size at least f(N)? He proved that f ( N ) ⩾ c N 1 3 , for a constant c > 0 . In this note, we improve this bound to N 1 3 + 7 78 + o ( 1 ).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-025-00151-5