Infinite co-minimal pairs involving lacunary sequences and generalisations to higher dimensions

Arindam Biswas, Jyoti Prakash Saha

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Abstract

In 2011, Nathanson proposed several questions on minimal complements in a group or a semigroup. The notion of minimal complements and being a minimal complement leads to the notion of co-minimal pairs which was considered in a prior work of the authors. In this article, we study which type of subsets in the integers and free abelian groups of higher rank can be a part of a co-minimal pair. We show that a majority of lacunary sequences have this property. From the conditions established, one can show that any infinite subset of any finitely generated abelian group has uncountably many subsets which is a part of a co-minimal pair. Further, the uncountable collection of sets can be chosen so that they satisfy certain algebraic properties.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1445-1462
Number of pages18
JournalRamanujan Journal
Volume57
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Additive complements
  • Additive number theory
  • Minimal complements
  • Representation of integers
  • Sumsets

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Algebra and Number Theory

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