Geometric progressions in syndetic sets
Abstract
In order to investigate multiplicative structures in additively large sets, Beiglb\"{o}ck et al. raised a significant open question as to whether or not every subset of the natural numbers with bounded gaps (syndetic set) contains arbitrarily long geometric progressions. A result of Erd\H{o}s implies that syndetic sets contain a -term geometric progression with integer common ratio, but we still do not know if they contain such a progression with common ratio being a perfect square. In this article, we prove that for each , a syndetic set contains -term geometric progressions with common ratios of the form and , where (the set of primes), is a composite number, , and . We also show that 2-syndetic sets (sets with bounded gap two) contain infinitely many -term geometric progressions with their respective common ratios being perfect squares.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.09230,
title = {Geometric progressions in syndetic sets},
author = {Bhuwanesh Rao Patil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09230},
year = {2019}
}