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Discrepancy of arithmetic progressions in grids

Combinatorics 2021-11-01 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We prove that the the discrepancy of arithmetic progressions in the dd-dimensional grid {1,,N}d\{1, \dots, N\}^d is within a constant factor depending only on dd of Nd2d+2N^{\frac{d}{2d+2}}. This extends the case d=1d=1, which is a celebrated result of Roth and of Matou\v{s}ek and Spencer, and removes the polylogarithmic factor from the previous upper bound of Valk\'o from about two decades ago. We further prove similarly tight bounds for grids of differing side lengths in many cases.

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@article{arxiv.2110.15429,
  title  = {Discrepancy of arithmetic progressions in grids},
  author = {Jacob Fox and Max Wenqiang Xu and Yunkun Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.15429},
  year   = {2021}
}

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25 pages

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