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On additive complements in natural numbers
Abstract
We prove that for additive complements A and B, if limsupx→+∞A(x)B(x)/x<4/3, then A(x)B(x)−x→+∞ (x→+∞). This improves the earlier upper bound 3−√3 due to Fang and Chen.
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BibTeX
@misc{yang2026additive,
title = {{On additive complements in natural numbers}},
author = {Quan-Hui Yang and Lilu Zhao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.13900},
eprint = {2609.13900},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13900},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - On additive complements in natural numbers
AU - Quan-Hui Yang
AU - Lilu Zhao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/12
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.13900
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13900
AB - We prove that for additive complements A and B, if limsup_x→+∞A(x)B(x)/x<4/3, then A(x)B(x)−x→+∞ (x→+∞). This improves the earlier upper bound 3−√3 due to Fang and Chen.
ER -