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Cliques in the Paley graph and a problem of Sarkozy

The following question is motivated by pure curiosity; it is not a part of any research project and I do not have any applications. The question comes as an interpolation between two notoriously ...
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If $A+A+A$ contains the extremes, does it contain the middle?

Let $b \ge 1$ and $A\subseteq [0,b]$ be a set of integers (all intervals will be of integers). Write $hA := \underbrace{A + \ldots + A}_{h\text{ summands}} = \{ \sum_{i=1}^h a_i ~|~a_i \in A,\, \...
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Sumsets that contains many squares, Improvement on the bound

I'm being troubled by this problem on AoPS: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c6h1998237p13955033 I searched for any literature related to it such as Nguyen, Hoi H., and Van H. Vu., Squares ...
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Gaps in sumsets and difference sets

a) Let $S\subset \{1,2,\dotsc,N\}$ be a fairly thick set (with at least $N^{1-\epsilon}$ elements, say). Suppose that the intersection of, say, $$3 S - 3 S = \{a_1+a_2+a_3-(a_4+a_5+a_6): a_1,\dotsc,...
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Subgroup cliques in the Paley graph

It is a famous open problem to estimate non-trivially, for a prime $p\equiv 1\pmod 4$, the largest size of a subset $A\subset{\mathbb F}_p$ such that the difference of any two elements of $A$ is a ...
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The set of lengths of $nX$ gets larger and larger for every non-zero, non-empty, finite $X \subseteq \mathbf N$ with $0 \in X$

Let $H$ be a multiplicatively written monoid with identity $1_H$. Given $x \in H$, we take ${\sf L}_H(x) := \{0\}$ if $x = 1_H$; otherwise, ${\sf L}_H(x)$ is the set of all $k \in \mathbf N^+$ for ...
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Asymptotic behavior of sumsets of squares with restricted congruence conditions

Recall that if $A$ and $B$ are both subsets of the integers, then $A+B=\{a+b:a \in A,b \in B\}$. Lagrange's four-square theorem states that if $A$ is the set of squares, then $4A=A+A+A+A=\mathbb{N}$. ...
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General asymptotic result in additive combinatorics (sums of sets)

Let $S_1,\cdots,S_k$ be $k$ infinite sets of positive integers. Let $N_i(z)$ be the numbers of elements in $S_i$ that are less or equal to $z$. Let us further assume that $$N_i(S) \sim \frac{a_i z^{...
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