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We combine a sieve method together with good uniformity estimates to prove a secondary term for the asymptotic estimate of $S_3\times A$ extensions over $\mathbb{Q}$ when $A$ is an odd abelian group with minimal prime divisor greater than…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Jiuya Wang

Green and Tao proved that the primes contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. We show that, essentially the same proof leads to the following result: The primes in an short interval contains many arithmetic progressions of any…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chunlei Liu

In this paper, we develop Terence Tao's harmonic analysis method and apply it to restricted sumsets. The well known Cauchy-Davenport theorem asserts that if $A$ and $B$ are nonempty subsets of $Z/pZ$ with $p$ a prime, then $|A+B|\ge…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-29 Song Guo , Zhi-Wei Sun

We improve the quantitative estimate for Roth's theorem on three-term arithmetic progressions, showing that if $A\subset\{1,\ldots,N\}$ contains no non-trivial three-term arithmetic progressions then $\lvert A\rvert\ll N(\log\log N)^4/\log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Thomas F. Bloom

In this paper we prove: If 0 < d < 1, and p is a sufficiently large prime, then if S is a subset of Z/pZ having the least number of three-term arithmetic progressions among all subsets of Z/pZ having at least dp elements, then S has an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ernie Croot

I show that a trivial modification of a standard proof of the Roth's Theorem on triples in arithmetic progression would lead to the following Theorem: If A is a "large set" that is its elements are monotone increasing integers and the sum…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Gabor Korvin

The celebrated Green-Tao theorem states that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions in the primes. One of the main ingredients in their proof is a relative Szemer\'edi theorem which says that any subset of a pseudorandom set of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-26 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Yufei Zhao

Tao conjectured that every dense subset of $\mathcal{P}^d$, the $d$-tuples of primes, contains constellations of any given shape. This was very recently proved by Cook, Magyar, and Titichetrakun and independently by Tao and Ziegler. Here we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Jacob Fox , Yufei Zhao

We obtain a tight bound of $O(L^2\log k)$ for the mixing time of the exclusion process in $\mathbf{Z}^d/L\mathbf{Z}^d$ with $k\leq{1/2}L^d$ particles. Previously the best bound, based on the log Sobolev constant determined by Yau, was not…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ben Morris

Assuming the well-known conjecture that [x,x+x^t] contains a prime for t > 0 and x sufficiently large, we prove: For 0 < r < 1, there exists 0 < s < r < 1, 0 < d < 1, and infinitely many primes q such that if S is a subset of Z/qZ having…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ernie Croot

We improve the lower bound on the number of permutations of {1,2,...,n} in which no 3-term arithmetic progression occurs as a subsequence, and derive lower bounds on the upper and lower densities of subsets of the positive integers that can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Timothy D. LeSaulnier , Sujith Vijay

We prove that the primes of the form $x^2+y^2+1$ contain arbitrarily long non-trivial arithmetic progressions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Yu-Chen Sun , Hao Pan

Given a positive integer $N$ and real number $\alpha\in [0, 1]$, let $m(\alpha,N)$ denote the minimum, over all sets $A\subset \mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ of size at least $\alpha N$, of the normalized count of 3-term arithmetic progressions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Pablo Candela , Olof Sisask

We determine the structure of a finite subset $A$ of an abelian group given that $|2A|<3(1-\epsilon)|A|$, $\epsilon>0$; namely, we show that $A$ is contained either in a "small" one-dimensional coset progression, or in a union of fewer than…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Vsevolod F. Lev

Let $m\geq 3$. Suppose that $$ 1-2^{-2^{m^24^m}}<\gamma<1. $$ Then the set $$ \{p\text{ prime}:\, p=[n^{\frac1\gamma}]\text{ for some }n\in{\mathbb N}\} $$ contains infinitely many non-trivial $m$-term arithmetic progressions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Hongze Li , Hao Pan

We show that for some constant $\beta > 0$, any subset $A$ of integers $\{1,\ldots,N\}$ of size at least $2^{-O((\log N)^\beta)} \cdot N$ contains a non-trivial three-term arithmetic progression. Previously, three-term arithmetic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Zander Kelley , Raghu Meka

In this note, we show how to adapt Tao's slice rank method to extend the Ellenberg--Gijswijt theorem on cap sets to the problem of forbidding arithmetic progressions with restricted differences. In particular, we show that if $q$ is an odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Huy Tuan Pham

We show that infinitely many three-term arithmetic progressions $N, N+d, N+2d$ of powerful numbers exist with $d = 2\sqrt{N} + 1$. We further conjecture that infinitely many of these progressions consist of three consecutive terms in the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Wouter van Doorn

Let $F$ be a finite field of odd characteristic. We prove that any set $A\subset F$ with $|A|\geq C|F|^{5/6}$ contains a nontrivial quadratic progression $(x, x+y, x+y^2), y\neq 0.$ For prime fields, this improves the previous best-known…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Mark Lewko

We show two results. First, a refinement of Freiman's theorem: if A is a finite set of integers and |A+A| < K|A|, then A is contained in a multidimensional progression of dimension at most O(K^{7/4} log^3K) and size at most exp(O(K^{7/4}…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-11-02 Tom Sanders