Thin bases of order h

2003

Abstract A subset A⊆ N 0 is called a basis of order h if every positive integer can be represented as a sum of h members of A . Thin bases of order h will be constructed in this paper, for each h ⩾2, where the value of lim sup A(n)/ n h is smaller than that of thin bases known so far. In the most important case h =2 it is shown that for the considered class of bases (which generalizes an ansatz of Stohr) the result is best possible up to an e >0.