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It is known that if a subset of $\mathbb{R}$ has positive Lebesgue measure, then it contains arbitrarily long finite arithmetic progressions. We prove that this result does not extend to infinite arithmetic progressions in the following…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Laurestine Bradford , Hannah Kohut , Yuveshen Mooroogen

A geometric progression of length $k$ and integer ratio is a set of numbers of the form $\{a,ar,\dots,ar^{k-1}\}$ for some positive real number $a$ and integer $r\geq 2$. For each integer $k \geq 3$, a greedy algorithm is used to construct…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Melvyn B. Nathanson , Kevin O'Bryant

A set of positive integers $A \subset \mathbb{Z}_{> 0}$ is \emph{log-sparse} if there is an absolute constant $C$ so that for any positive integer $x$ the sequence contains at most $C$ elements in the interval $[x,2x)$. In this note we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Noga Alon , Ryan Alweiss , Yang P. Liu , Anders Martinsson , Shyam Narayanan

We enumerate permutations that avoid all but one of the $k$ patterns of length $k$ starting with a monotone increasing subsequence of length $k-1$. We compare the size of such permutation classes to the size of the class of permutations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Miklós Bóna , Jay Pantone

Several recent papers have considered the problem of how large a subset of integers can be without containing any 3-term geometric progressions. This problem has also recently been generalized to rings of integers in quadratic number fields…

For an integer $b\geq 2$, we call a positive integer $b$-anti-Niven if it is relatively prime to the sum of the digits in its base-$b$ representation. In this article, we investigate the maximum lengths of arithmetic progressions of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ryan Blau , Joshua Harrington , Sarah Lohrey , Eliel Sosis , Tony W. H. Wong

Furstenberg, Glasscock, Bergelson, Beiglboeck have been studied abundance in arithmatic progression on various large sets like piecewise syndetic, central, thick, etc. but also there are so many sets in which abundance in progression is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Aninda Chakraborty , Sayan Goswami

In a previous paper, we saw how to create formulae for the sum of the terms of a harmonic progression of order $k$, $HP_k(n)$, with integer parameters, $a$ and $b$. In this new paper we make those formulae more general by lifting the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Jose Risomar Sousa

Let $h\geq 2$ and $A=\{a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_{k-1}\}$ be a finite set of integers. It is well-known that $\left|hA\right|=hk-h+1$ if and only if $A$ is a $k$-term arithmetic progression. In this paper, we give some nontrivial inverse results of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Min Tang , Yun Xing

The denominators $d_n$ of the harmonic number $1+\frac12+\frac13+\cdots+\frac1n$ do not increase monotonically with~$n$. It is conjectured that $d_n=D_n={\rm LCM}(1,2,\ldots,n)$ infinitely often. For an odd prime $p$, the set…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Peter Shiu

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

We examine the behavior of the number of $k$-term arithmetic progressions in a random subset of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$. We prove that if a set is chosen by including each element of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ independently with constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Ross Berkowitz , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney

We prove that if a set is `large' in the sense of Erd\H{o}s, then it approximates arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions in a strong quantitative sense. More specifically, expressing the error in the approximation in terms of the gap…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Jonathan M. Fraser , Han Yu

Green and Sisask showed that the maximal number of $3$-term arithmetic progressions in $n$-element sets of integers is $\lceil n^2/2\rceil$; it is easy to see that the same holds if the set of integers is replaced by the real line or by any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Itai Benjamini , Shoni Gilboa

In its usual form, Freiman's 3k-4 theorem states that if A and B are subsets of the integers of size k with small sumset (of size close to 2k) then they are very close to arithmetic progressions. Our aim in this paper is to strengthen this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Bela Bollobas , Imre Leader , Marius Tiba

We obtain a generalization of the recent Kelley--Meka result on sets avoiding arithmetic progressions of length three. In our proof we develop the theory of the higher energies. Also, we discuss the case of longer arithmetic progressions,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Ilya D. Shkredov

In this paper, we consider three families of numerical series with general terms containing the harmonic numbers, and we use simple methods from classical and complex analysis to find explicit formulas for their respective sums.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Omran Kouba

We present a variety of new results on finite sets A of integers for which the sumset A+A is larger than the difference set A-A, so-called MSTD (more sums than differences) sets. First we show that there is, up to affine transformation, a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Peter Hegarty

Let $A, B\subseteq \mathbb{Z}$ be finite, nonempty subsets with $\min A=\min B=0$, and let $$\delta(A,B)={\begin{array}{ll} 1 & \hbox{if} A\subseteq B, 0 & \hbox{otherwise.} If $\max B\leq \max A\leq |A|+|B|-3$ and \label{one}|A+B|\leq…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-23 Itziar Bardaji , David J. Grynkiewicz

In a recent breakthrough Kelley and Meka proved a quasipolynomial upper bound for the density of sets of integers without non-trivial three-term arithmetic progressions. We present a simple modification to their method that strengthens…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Thomas F. Bloom , Olof Sisask