Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4594558 Journal of Number Theory 2011 14 Pages PDF
Abstract

For a given set M of positive integers, a problem of Motzkin asks for determining the maximal density μ(M) among sets of nonnegative integers in which no two elements differ by an element of M. The problem is completely settled when |M|⩽2, and some partial results are known for several families of M for |M|⩾3, including the case where the elements of M are in arithmetic progression. We consider some cases when M either contains an arithmetic progression or is contained in an arithmetic progression.

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