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Arithmetic Progressions in Sumsets and Lp-Almost-Periodicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2013

ERNIE CROOT ,
IZABELLA ŁABA  and
OLOF SISASK
ERNIE CROOT
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA (e-mail: ecroot@math.gatech.edu)
IZABELLA ŁABA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada (e-mail: ilaba@math.ubc.ca)
OLOF SISASK
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK (e-mail: O.Sisask@qmul.ac.uk)
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Abstract

We prove results about the Lp-almost-periodicity of convolutions. One of these follows from a simple but rather general lemma about approximating a sum of functions in Lp, and gives a very short proof of a theorem of Green that if A and B are subsets of {1,. . .,N} of sizes αN and βN then A+B contains an arithmetic progression of length at least

\begin{equation}\exp ( c (\alpha \beta \log N)^{1/2} - \log\log N).\end{equation}
Another almost-periodicity result improves this bound for densities decreasing with N: we show that under the above hypotheses the sumset A+B contains an arithmetic progression of length at least
\begin{equation}\exp\biggl( c \biggl(\frac{\alpha \log N}{\log^3 2\beta^{-1}} \biggr)^{1/2} - \log( \beta^{-1} \log N) \biggr).\end{equation}

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Primary 11B30Secondary 11B25

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 351 - 365
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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