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REPRESENTATIONFUNCTIONSOFADDITIVEBASES FORABELIANSEMIGROUPS MELVYN B.NATHANSON Received 3June 2003 A subset of an abelian semigroup is called an asymptotic basis for the semigroup if every element ofthe semigroup with atmost ?nitely many exceptions can be represented as the sum of two distinct elements of the basis. The representation function of the basis counts the number of representations of an element of the semigroup as the sum of two distinct elements of the basis. Suppose there is given function from the semigroup into the set of nonnegative integers together with in?nity such t