Erdős problem 154
Let be a Sidon set with . Must be well-distributed over all small moduli? In particular, must about half the elements of be even and half odd?
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Let be a Sidon set with . Must be well-distributed over all small moduli? In particular, must about half the elements of be even and half odd?
The answer is yes. Lindström [Li98] proved the analogous statement for itself (see erdos_154.variants.lindstrom), later strengthened by Kolountzakis [Ko99]; well-distribution of then follows using the Sidon property.
We state the question for the sumset: for any sequence of Sidon sets with and , and any modulus , the proportion of elements of congruent to (i.e. the count divided by ) tends to for every residue .
True ↔ ∀ (m : ℕ), 2 ≤ m → ∀ (N : ℕ → ℕ) (A : ℕ → Finset ℕ), Filter.Tendsto (fun k => ↑(N k)) Filter.atTop Filter.atTop → (∀ (k x : ℕ), x ∈ A k → x ≤ N k) → (∀ (k : ℕ), IsSidon ↑(A k)) → Filter.Tendsto (fun k => ↑(A k).card / √↑(N k)) Filter.atTop (nhds 1) → ∀ i < m, Filter.Tendsto (fun k => ↑{s ∈ A k + A k | s % m = i}.card / ↑(A k + A k).card) Filter.atTop (nhds (1 / ↑m))