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Difference sets and the primes

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2010-04-02 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

Suppose that A is a subset of {1,...,N} such that the difference between any two elements of A is never one less than a prime. We show that |A| = O(N exp(-c(log N)^{1/4})) for some absolute c>0.

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@article{arxiv.0710.0644,
  title  = {Difference sets and the primes},
  author = {Imre Z. Ruzsa and Tom Sanders},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0644},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

19 pp. Corrected typos. Updated references.

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