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Large subsets of Euclidean space avoiding infinite arithmetic progressions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2023-04-21 v2

Abstract

It is known that if a subset of R\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 sense: for each λ\lambda in [0,1)[0,1), we construct a subset of R\mathbb{R} that intersects every interval of unit length in a set of measure at least λ\lambda, but that does not contain any infinite arithmetic progression.

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@article{arxiv.2205.04786,
  title  = {Large subsets of Euclidean space avoiding infinite arithmetic progressions},
  author = {Laurestine Bradford and Hannah Kohut and Yuveshen Mooroogen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04786},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Final version to appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

R2 v1 2026-06-24T11:12:53.405Z