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Uniform Dilations in Higher Dimensions

Number Theory 2014-04-16 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

A theorem of Glasner says that if XX is an infinite subset of the torus T\mathbb{T}, then for any ϵ>0\epsilon>0, there exists an integer nn such that the dilation nX={nx:xT}nX=\{nx: x \in \mathbb{T} \} is ϵ\epsilon-dense (i.e, it intersects any interval of length 2ϵ2\epsilon in T\mathbb{T}). Alon and Peres provided a general framework for this problem, and showed quantitatively that one can restrict the dilation to be of the form f(n)Xf(n)X where fZ[x]f \in \mathbb{Z}[x] is not constant. Building upon the work of Alon and Peres, we study this phenomenon in higher dimensions. Let A(x){\bf A}(x) be an L×NL \times N matrix whose entries are in Z[x]\mathbb{Z}[x], and XX be an infinite subset of TN\mathbb{T}^N. Contrarily to the case N=L=1N=L=1, it's not always true that there is an integer nn such that \bA(n)X\bA(n)X is ϵ\epsilon-dense in a translate of a subtorus of TL\mathbb{T}^{L}. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for matrices A{\bf A} for which this is true. We also prove an effective version of the result.

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@article{arxiv.1210.2083,
  title  = {Uniform Dilations in Higher Dimensions},
  author = {Michael Kelly and Thai Hoang Le},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.2083},
  year   = {2014}
}
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