Vol. 15, No. 2, 1965

Download this article
Download this article. For screen
For printing
Recent Issues
Vol. 331: 1  2
Vol. 330: 1  2
Vol. 329: 1  2
Vol. 328: 1  2
Vol. 327: 1  2
Vol. 326: 1  2
Vol. 325: 1  2
Vol. 324: 1  2
Online Archive
Volume:
Issue:
     
The Journal
About the journal
Ethics and policies
Peer-review process
 
Submission guidelines
Submission form
Editorial board
Officers
 
Subscriptions
 
ISSN 1945-5844 (electronic)
ISSN 0030-8730 (print)
 
Special Issues
Author index
To appear
 
Other MSP journals
An inequality for the number of elements in a sum of two sets of lattice points

Betty Kvarda

Vol. 15 (1965), No. 2, 545–550
Abstract

For a fixed positive integer n, let Q be the set of all n-dimensional lattice points (x1,,xn) with each xi a nonnegative integer and at least one xi positive. A finite nonempty subset R of Q is called a fundamental set if for every (r1,,rn) in R, all vectors (x1,,xn) of Q with xi ri, i = 1,,n, are also in R. If A is any subset of Q and R is any fundamental set, let A(R) denote the number of vectors in A R. Finally, if A is any proper subset of Q, let the density of A be the quantity

       -A-(R)--
α = glb Q(R )+ 1,

taken over all fundamental sets R for which A(R) < Q(R). Then the theorem proved in this paper can be stated as follows.

Theorem. Let A and B be subsets of Q, let C be the set of all vectors of the form a, b, or a + b where a A and b B, let α be the density of A, and let R be any fundamental set such that (1) there exists at least one vector in R which is not in C, and (2) for each b in B R (if any) there exists g in R but not in C such that g b is in Q. Then

C (R) ≧ α ⌈Q (R)+ 1]+ B(R ).

Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 10.45
Milestones
Received: 17 February 1964
Published: 1 June 1965
Authors
Betty Kvarda