Abstract
For any given set A of nonnegative integers and for any given two positive integers \(k_1,k_2\), \(R_{k_1,k_2}(A,n)\) is defined as the number of solutions of the equation \(n=k_1a_1+k_2a_2\) with \(a_1,a_2\in A\). In this paper, we prove that if integer \(k\ge 2\) and set \(A\subseteq {\mathbb {N}}\) such that \(R_{1,k}(A,n)=R_{1,k}({\mathbb {N}}\setminus A,n)\) holds for all integers \(n\ge n_0\), then \(R_{1,k}(A,n)\gg \log n\).
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Y.G. Chen, V.F. Lev, Integer sets with identical representation functions. Integers 16, A36 (2016)
G. Dombi, Additive properties of certain sets. Acta Arithmetica 103, 137–146 (2002)
V.F. Lev, Reconstructing integer sets from their representation functions. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 11, R78 (2004)
S.Z. Kiss, C. Sándor, Partitions of the set of nonnegative integers with the same representation functions. Discrete Mathematics 340, 1154–1161 (2017)
Z.H. Qu, A remark on weighted representation functions. Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics 18, 1713–1719 (2014)
Z.H. Qu, A note on representation functions with different weights. Colloquium Mathematicum 143, 105–112 (2016)
E. Rozgonyi, C. Sándor, An extension of Nathanson’s theorem on representation functions. Combinatorica 37, 521–537 (2017)
C. Sándor, Partitions of natural numbers and their representation functions. Integers 4, A18 (2004)
M. Tang, Partitions of the set of natural numbers and their representation functions. Discrete Mathematics 308, 2614–2616 (2008)
M. Tang, Partitions of natural numbers and their representation functions. Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series A 156 37, 39–44 (2016)
Q.H. Yang, Y.G. Chen, Partitions of natural numbers with the same weightes representation functions. Jounal Number Theory 132, 3047–3055 (2012)
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the anonymous referee very much for the detailed comments.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Publisher's Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12301003), the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2308085QA02) and the University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province (Grant No. 2022AH050171).
Rights and permissions
Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
About this article
Cite this article
Chen, SQ. The lower bound of weighted representation function. Period Math Hung (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-024-00592-3
Accepted:
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-024-00592-3