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Bounds for sets with no polynomial progressions

Part of:Sequences and sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2021

Sarah Peluse
Sarah Peluse*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA; E-mail: speluse@princeton.edu

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Let $P_1,\dots ,P_m\in \mathbb{Z} [y]$ be polynomials with distinct degrees, each having zero constant term. We show that any subset A of $\{1,\dots ,N\}$ with no nontrivial progressions of the form $x,x+P_1(y),\dots ,x+P_m(y)$ has size $|A|\ll N/(\log \log {N})^{c_{P_1,\dots ,P_m}}$. Along the way, we prove a general result controlling weighted counts of polynomial progressions by Gowers norms.

MSC classification

Primary:11B30: Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity

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Number Theory
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Forum of Mathematics, Pi , Volume 8 , 2020, e16
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