In combinatorics, the Cameron–Erdős conjecture (now a theorem) is the statement that the number of sum-free sets contained in is
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The sum of two odd numbers is even, so a set of odd numbers is always sum-free. There are odd numbers in [N ], and so subsets of odd numbers in [N ]. The Cameron–Erdős conjecture says that this counts a constant proportion of the sum-free sets.
The conjecture was stated by Peter Cameron and Paul Erdős in 1988.[1] It was proved by Ben Green[2] and independently by Alexander Sapozhenko[3][4] in 2003.
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edit- ^ Cameron, P. J.; Erdős, P. (1990), "On the number of sets of integers with various properties", Number theory: proceedings of the First Conference of the Canadian Number Theory Association, held at the Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, April 17-27, 1988, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 61–79, ISBN 9783110117233, MR 110665161-79&rft.pub=de Gruyter&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=9783110117233&rft_id=https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1106651#id-name=MR&rft.aulast=Cameron&rft.aufirst=P. J.&rft.au=Erdős, P.&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=68g0Ds4FNM0C&pg=PA61&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Cameron–Erdős conjecture" class="Z3988">.
- ^ Green, Ben (2004), "The Cameron-Erdős conjecture", The Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 36 (6): 769–778, arXiv:math.NT/0304058, doi:10.1112/S0024609304003650, MR 2083752, S2CID 119615076769-778&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info:arxiv/math.NT/0304058&rft_id=https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2083752#id-name=MR&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:119615076#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1112/S0024609304003650&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=Ben&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Cameron–Erdős conjecture" class="Z3988">.
- ^ Sapozhenko, A. A. (2003), "The Cameron-Erdős conjecture", Doklady Akademii Nauk, 393 (6): 749–752, MR 2088503749-752&rft.date=2003&rft_id=https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2088503#id-name=MR&rft.aulast=Sapozhenko&rft.aufirst=A. A.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Cameron–Erdős conjecture" class="Z3988">.
- ^ Sapozhenko, Alexander A. (2008), "The Cameron-Erdős conjecture", Discrete Mathematics, 308 (19): 4361–4369, doi:10.1016/j.disc.2007.08.103, MR 24338624361-4369&rft.date=2008&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016/j.disc.2007.08.103&rft_id=https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2433862#id-name=MR&rft.aulast=Sapozhenko&rft.aufirst=Alexander A.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Cameron–Erdős conjecture" class="Z3988">.
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