Salem sets with no arithmetic progressions
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2018-08-27 v3 Combinatorics
Number Theory
Abstract
We construct Salem sets in of any dimension (including ) which do not contain any arithmetic progressions of length . Moreover, the sets can be taken to be Ahlfors regular if the dimension is less than , and the measure witnessing the Fourier decay can be taken to be Frostman in the case of dimension . This is in sharp contrast to the situation in the discrete setting (where Fourier uniformity is well known to imply existence of progressions), and helps clarify a result of Laba and Pramanik on pseudo-random subsets of the real line which do contain progressions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.07596,
title = {Salem sets with no arithmetic progressions},
author = {Pablo Shmerkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.07596},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
11 pages, no figures. v3: typos and minor issues fixed