GREEN'S ADDITIVE COMPLEMENT PROBLEM FOR k-TH POWERS

Let k ⩾ 2 be an integer, S^k = {1^k, 2^k, 3^k, …} and B = {b₁, b₂, b₃, …} be an additive complement of S^k, which means all sufficiently large integers can be written as the sum of an element of S^k and an element of B. In this paper we prove that $${{\lim}\;{\sup}}\limits_{n{\rightarrow}{\infty}}\;{\frac{{\Gamma}(2-{\frac{1}{k}})^{\frac{k}{k-1}}{\Gamma}(1+{\frac{1}{k}})^{\frac{k}{k-1}}n^{\frac{k}{k-1}}-b_n}{n}}\;{\geqslant}\;{\frac{k}{2(k-1)}}\;{\frac{{\Gamma}(2-{\frac{1}{k}})^2}{{\Gamma}(2-{\frac{2}{k}})}},$$ where 𝚪(·) is Euler's Gamma function.