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A note on Elkin's improvement of Behrend's construction

Combinatorics 2008-10-07 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We provide a short proof of a recent result of Elkin in which large subsets of the integers 1 up to N free of 3-term progressions are constructed.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0732,
  title  = {A note on Elkin's improvement of Behrend's construction},
  author = {Ben Green and Julia Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0732},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, submitted to volume in honour of Mel Nathanson

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