On the density of integral sets with missing differences from sets related to arithmetic progressions

AbstractFor a given set M of positive integers, a problem of Motzkin asks for determining the maximal density μ(M) among sets of nonnegative integers in which no two elements differ by an element of M. The problem is completely settled when |M|⩽2, and some partial results are known for several families of M for |M|⩾3, including the case where the elements of M are in arithmetic progression. We consider some cases when M either contains an arithmetic progression or is contained in an arithmetic progression