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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2023
For any positive integers $k_1,k_2$ and any set
$A\subseteq \mathbb {N}$, let
$R_{k_1,k_2}(A,n)$ be the number of solutions of the equation
$n=k_1a_1+k_2a_2$ with
$a_1,a_2\in A$. Let g be a fixed integer. We prove that if
$k_1$ and
$k_2$ are two integers with
$2\le k_1<k_2$ and
$(k_1,k_2)=1$, then there does not exist any set
$A\subseteq \mathbb {N}$ such that
$R_{k_1,k_2}(A,n)-R_{k_1,k_2}(\mathbb {N}\setminus A,n)=g$ for all sufficiently large integers n, and if
$1=k_1<k_2$, then there exists a set A such that
$R_{k_1,k_2}(A,n)-R_{k_1,k_2}(\mathbb {N}\setminus A,n)=1$ for all positive integers n.
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12101009 and 12371005), Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2108085QA02) and University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province (Grant No. 2022AH050171).