On Additive Representation Functions

Abstract

Let $\A=\{a_1<a_2<a_3.....<a_n<...\}$ be an infinite sequence of integers and let $R_2(n)=|\{(i,j):\ \ a_i+a_j=n;\ \ a_i,a_j\in \A;\ \ i\le j\}|$. We define $S_k=\s_{l=1}^k(R_2(2l)-R_2(2l+1))$. We prove that, if $L^{\infty }$ norm of $S_k^{+}(=\max \{S_k,0\})$ is small then $L^1$ norm of $\frac{S_k^{+}}{k}$ is large.

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