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New Obstacles to Multiple Recurrence

Dynamical Systems 2025-12-25 v3 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

We show that there is a set which is not a set of multiple recurrence despite being a set of recurrence for nil-Bohr sets. This answers Huang, Shao, and Ye's \enquote{higher-order} version of Katznelson's Question on Bohr recurrence and topological recurrence in the negative. Equivalently, we construct a set SS so that there is a finite coloring of N\mathbb{N} without three-term arithmetic progressions with common differences in SS, but so that SS lacks the usual polynomial obstacles to arithmetic progressions.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21680,
  title  = {New Obstacles to Multiple Recurrence},
  author = {Ryan Alweiss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21680},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure, comments welcome!

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