Ruzsa’s Problem on Bi-Sidon Sets
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 $$f(N)\geqslant cN^{\frac{1}{3}}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>⩾</mml:mo> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mfrac> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:mfrac> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> , for a constant $$c>0$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> <mml:mo>></mml:mo> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> . In this note, we improve this bound to $$N^{\frac{1}{3}+\frac{7}{78}+o(1)}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mfrac> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:mfrac> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mfrac> <mml:mn>7</mml:mn> <mml:mn>78</mml:mn> </mml:mfrac> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mi>o</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:msup> </mml:math> .
Authors
- Dmitrii Zakharov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9594-9144)
- János Pach
Institutions
- HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (HU)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- COMBINATORICA
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-025-00151-5
- Primary Topic
- Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office