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  "summary": "OPEN as of 2026-07-31. The maintained Erdős Problems database at commit 8138974387d9030542daabe67faaa33eff9356f8 lists Problem 14 as open. The unresolved remainder is the full displayed statement. Give a rigorous proof or counterexample that completely resolves this statement: Erdős Problem 14: For a set $A \\subseteq \\mathbb{N}$, let $B$ denote the set of positive integers that can be represented in exactly one way as the sum of two (not necessarily distinct) elements of $A$. For each positive integer $N$, define $f_A(N)$ to be the number of integers in $\\{1, 2, \\ldots, N\\}$ that do not belong to $B$; that is, integers that are either not representable at all as a sum of two elements of $A$, or are representable in more than one way. Does there exist a set $A \\subseteq \\mathbb{N}$ such that $f_A(N) = o(\\sqrt{N})$ as $N \\to \\infty$? Equivalently, is there a set $A \\subseteq \\mathbb{N}$ for which $f_A(N)/\\sqrt{N} \\to 0$ as $N \\to \\infty$?",
  "relevance": "For erdos problem 14, pins the dated research frontier: OPEN as of 2026-07-31. The maintained Erdős Problems database at commit 8138974387d9030542daabe67faaa33eff9356f8 lists Problem 14 as open. The unresolved remainder is the full displayed statement. Give a rigorous proof or counterexample that completely resolves this statement: Erdős Problem 14: For.",
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  "body": "OPEN as of 2026-07-31. The maintained Erdős Problems database at commit 8138974387d9030542daabe67faaa33eff9356f8 lists Problem 14 as open. The unresolved remainder is the full displayed statement.\n\nA complete resolution must satisfy this condition: Give a rigorous proof or counterexample that completely resolves this statement: Erdős Problem 14: For a set $A \\subseteq \\mathbb{N}$, let $B$ denote the set of positive integers that can be represented in exactly one way as the sum of two (not necessarily distinct) elements of $A$. For each positive integer $N$, define $f_A(N)$ to be the number of integers in $\\{1, 2, \\ldots, N\\}$ that do not belong to $B$; that is, integers that are either not representable at all as a sum of two elements of $A$, or are representable in more than one way. Does there exist a set $A \\subseteq \\mathbb{N}$ such that $f_A(N) = o(\\sqrt{N})$ as $N \\to \\infty$? Equivalently, is there a set $A \\subseteq \\mathbb{N}$ for which $f_A(N)/\\sqrt{N} \\to 0$ as $N \\to \\infty$?",
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      "url": "https://www.erdosproblems.com/14",
      "locator": "See dataset.references[0] for the exact external source and locator."
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    "url": "https://www.erdosproblems.com/14",
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