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Polynomials and Primes in Generalized Arithmetic Progressions (Revised Version)

Number Theory 2015-07-10 v4 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We provide upper bounds on the density of a symmetric generalized arithmetic progression lacking nonzero elements of the form h(n) for natural numbers n, or h(p) with p prime, for appropriate polynomials h with integer coefficients. The prime variant can be interpreted as a multi-dimensional, polynomial extension of Linnik's Theorem. This version is a revision of the published version. Most notably, the properness hypotheses have been removed from Theorems 2 and 3, and the numerology in Theorem 2 has been improved.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5275,
  title  = {Polynomials and Primes in Generalized Arithmetic Progressions (Revised Version)},
  author = {Ernie Croot and Neil Lyall and Alex Rice},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5275},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, typos corrected, numerology improved, properness hypotheses eliminated

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