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Polynomial Szemer\'edi for sets with large Hausdorff dimension on the Torus

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-07-22 v1

Abstract

Let P={P1,,PkR[y]}\mathbb{P}= \{P_1, \cdots, P_{k}\in \mathbb{R}[y]\} be a collection of polynomials with distinct degrees and zero constant terms. We proved that there exists ϵ=ϵ(P)>0\epsilon=\epsilon(\mathbb{P})>0 such that, for any compact set ETE \subset \mathbb{T} with dim(E)>1ϵ>1-\epsilon, we can find y0y\neq 0 so that {x,x+P1(y),,x+Pk(y)}E\{x,x+P_1(y), \cdots,x+P_k(y)\} \subset E. The proof relies on a suitable version of the Sobolev smoothing inequality with ideas adapted from Peluse \cite{P19}, Durcik and Roos \cite{DR24}, and Krause, Mirek, Peluse, and Wright \cite{KMPW24}. As a byproduct of our Sobolev smoothing inequality, we demonstrated that the divergence set of the pointwise convergence problem for certain polynomial multiple ergodic averages has Hausdorff dimension strictly less than one.

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@article{arxiv.2507.14407,
  title  = {Polynomial Szemer\'edi for sets with large Hausdorff dimension on the Torus},
  author = {Guo-Dong Hong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.14407},
  year   = {2025}
}

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