Is there some $c>0$ such that, for all sufficiently large $n$, there exist integers $a_1<\cdots<a_k\leq n$ such that there are at least $cn^2$ distinct integers of the form $\sum_{u\leq i\leq v}a_i$?
This fails for $a_i=i$ for example. Erdős and Graham also ask what happens if we drop the monotonicity restriction and just ask that the $a_i$ are distinct. Perhaps some permutation of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ has at least $cn^2$ such distinct sums. This latter problem has been solved by Konieczny
[Ko15], who showed that a random permutation of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ has, with high probability, at least
\[\left(\frac{1+e^{-2}}{4}+o(1)\right) n^2\]
many such consecutive sums.
The original problem was solved (in the affirmative) by Beker [Be23b].
They also ask how many consecutive integers $>n$ can be represented as such a sum? Is it true that, for any $c>0$ at least $cn$ such integers are possible (for sufficiently large $n$)?
