English

Salem sets with no arithmetic progressions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2018-08-27 v3 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

We construct Salem sets in R/Z\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} of any dimension (including 11) which do not contain any arithmetic progressions of length 33. Moreover, the sets can be taken to be Ahlfors regular if the dimension is less than 11, and the measure witnessing the Fourier decay can be taken to be Frostman in the case of dimension 11. 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.

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@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

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