Arithmetic progressions in the graphs of slightly curved sequences

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Abstract: A strictly increasing sequence of positive integers is called a slightly curved sequence with small error if the sequence can be well-approximated by a function whose second derivative goes to zero faster than or equal to 1/xalpha for some alpha>0. In this paper, we prove that arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions are contained in the graph of a slightly curved sequence with small error. Furthermore, we extend Szemer'edi's theorem to a theorem about slightly curved sequences. As a corollary, it follows that the graph of the sequence lfloornafloorninA contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions for every 1lea<2 and every AsubsetmathbbN with positive upper density. Using this corollary, we show that the set p contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions for every 1lea<2 and b>1. We also prove that, for every age2, the graph of lfloornafloorn=1infty does not contain any arithmetic progressions of length 3.











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