Bohr topology and difference sets for some abelian groups
Abstract
For a fixed prime , denotes the field with elements, and denotes the countable direct sum . Viewing as a countable abelian group, we construct a set having positive upper Banach density while the difference set does not contain a Bohr neighborhood of any . For we obtain a stronger conclusion: does not contain a set of the form , where is piecewise syndetic. This construction answers negatively a variant of the following question asked by several authors: if has positive upper Banach density, must contain a Bohr neighborhood of some ? We also construct sets such that is dense in the Bohr topology of , has positive upper Banach density, and is not piecewise Bohr. For we show that every translate of is a set of topological recurrence and is not piecewise syndetic. These constructions answer a variant of a question asked by the author.
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@article{arxiv.1608.01014,
title = {Bohr topology and difference sets for some abelian groups},
author = {John T. Griesmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01014},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
24 Pages, 1 figure. Comments welcome! Revision 5: major revision. Proofs significantly simplified, p=2 case considered separately, with stronger results