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Given a sequence $\{b_{i}\}_{i=1}^{n}$ and a ratio $\lambda \in (0,1),$ let $E=\cup_{i=1}^n(\lambda E+b_i)$ be a homogeneous self-similar set. In this paper, we study the existence and maximal length of arithmetic progressions in $E$. Our…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Kan Jiang , Qiyang Pei , Lifeng Xi

Assuming four strongly compact cardinals, it is consistent that all entries in Cicho\'n's diagram are pairwise different, more specifically that \[ \aleph_1 < \mathrm{add}(\mathrm{null}) < \mathrm{cov}(\mathrm{null}) < \mathfrak{b} <…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Martin Goldstern , Jakob Kellner , Saharon Shelah

New bounds on the number of similar or directly similar copies of a pattern within a finite subset of the line or the plane are proved. The number of equilateral triangles whose vertices all lie within an $n$-point subset of the plane is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Bernardo Abrego , Silvia Fernandez-Merchant , Daniel J. Katz , Levon Kolesnikov

It follows from known results that every regular tripartite hypergraph of positive degree, with $n$ vertices in each class, has matching number at least $n/2$. This bound is best possible, and the extremal configuration is unique. Here we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Penny Haxell , Lothar Narins

Let the measure algebra of a topological group be equipped with the topology of uniform convergence on bounded right uniformly equicontinuous sets of functions. Convolution is separately continuous on the measure algebra, and it is jointly…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Jan Pachl , Juris Steprāns

In this paper we continue the investigations about unlike powers in arithmetic progression. We provide sharp upper bounds for the length of primitive non-constant arithmetic progressions consisting of squares/cubes and $n$-th powers.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-05 Lajos Hajdu , Szabolcs Tengely

A strictly increasing sequence of positive integers is called a slightly curved sequence with small error if the sequence can be well-approximated by a function whose second derivative goes to zero faster than or equal to $1/x^\alpha$ for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Kota Saito , Yuuya Yoshida

According to a classical result of Szemer\'{e}di, every dense subset of $1,2,...,N$ contains an arbitrary long arithmetic progression, if $N$ is large enough. Its analogue in higher dimensions due to F\"urstenberg and Katznelson says that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Adrian Dumitrescu

Let $\mathcal{F}=\{A_1,A_2,\ldots,A_k\}$ be a collection of finite arithmetic progressions, where each $A_d$ is an initial segment of the set $D_d=\{d,2d,3d,\ldots\}$ of consecutive multiples of a positive integer $d$. Let $m(\mathcal{F})$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Noga Alon , Michał Dębski , Jarosław Grytczuk , Jakub Przybyło

If $a$ and $b$ are integers with $b>a>1$, we completely characterize ``long'' arithmetic progressions in the sumsets of the geometric progressions $1, a, a^2, a^3, \ldots$ and $1, b, b^2, b^3, \ldots$. Our proofs utilize recent applications…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Michael A. Bennett

An expression $E(X_{1},...,X_{n})$ built using union, intersection, and complements is called inclusion-exclusion-like if, like the union in the exclusion-inclusion principle, there are constants $c_{1},c_{2},...,c_{n}$ so that for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Muneerah Al Nuwairan

Rudin conjectured that there are never more than c N^(1/2) squares in an arithmetic progression of length N. Motivated by this surprisingly difficult problem we formulate more than twenty conjectures in harmonic analysis, analytic number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Javier Cilleruelo , Andrew Granville

Let $c\in (0, 1]$ be a real number and let $n$ be a sufficiently large integer. We prove that every $n$-vertex $c n$-regular graph $G$ contains a collection of $\lfloor 1/c \rfloor$ paths whose union covers all but at most $o(n)$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Jie Han

In this note, we prove that there exists a universal constant $c=\frac{43}{50}$ such that for every $k\in \mathbb{N}$ and every $d<k/2$, every $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices and with minimum $d$-degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Asaf Ferber , Vishesh Jain

We proved that for every sufficiently large $n$, the complete graph $K_{2n}$ with an arbitrary edge signing $\sigma: E(K_{2n}) \to \{-1, +1\}$ admits a high discrepancy $1$-factor decomposition. That is, there exists a universal constant $c…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Jiangdong Ai , Fankang He , Seonghyuk Im , Hyunwoo Lee

Amoroso and Masser proved that for every real $\epsilon > 0$, there exists a constant $c(\epsilon)>0$, such that for every algebraic number $\alpha$ with $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)/\mathbb{Q}$ being a Galois extension, the height of $\alpha$ is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Jonathan Jenvrin

We characterize all orientations of cycles $C$ for which for every fixed $\varepsilon > 0$ there exists a constant $c \geq 1$ such that every digraph $D$ without loops or parallel arcs with $\chi(D) \geq c$ and minimum out-degree at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Hidde Koerts , Benjamin Moore , Sophie Spirkl

It is a classical fact that every $n$-element set of positive reals has at least $\binom{n+1}{2}+1$ distinct subset sums, with equality exactly for homogeneous arithmetic progressions (when $n\geq 4$). We establish stability versions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Ruben Carpenter , Colin Defant , Noah Kravitz

Pillai showed that any sequence of consecutive integers with at most 16 terms possesses one term that is relatively prime to all the others. We give a new proof of a slight generalization of this result to arithmetic progressions of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-31 Sudhir R. Ghorpade , Samrith Ram

We investigate a restriction of Paul Erdos' well-known problem from 1936 on the discrepancy of homogeneous arithmetic progressions. We restrict our attention to a finite set S of homogeneous arithmetic progressions, and ask when the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Robert Hochberg , Paul Phillips