Arithmetic progressions in sumsets of sparse sets

Noga Alon, Ryan Alweiss, Yang P. Liu, Anders Martinsson, Shyam Narayanan

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Abstract

A set of positive integers A 0 is 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 study arithmetic progressions in sums of logsparse subsets of 0. We prove that for any log-sparse subsets S1, Sn of 0, the sumset S = S1 + Sn cannot contain an arithmetic progression of size greater than n(1+o(1))n. We also show that this is nearly tight by proving that there exist log-sparse sets S1, Sn such that S1 + Sn contains an arithmetic progression of size n(1-o(1))n.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationNumber Theory and Combinatorics - A Collection in Honor of the Mathematics of Ronald Graham
EditorsBruce M. Landman, Florian Luca, Melvyn B. Nathanson, Jaroslav Nesetril, Aaron Robertson
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH
Pages27-33
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9783110753431
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 19 2022

Publication series

NameDe Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics
ISSN (Print)2942-4801
ISSN (Electronic)2942-4828

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Applied Mathematics

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