Popular progression differences in vector spaces II

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Abstract: Green used an arithmetic analogue of Szemer'edi's celebrated regularity lemma to prove the following strengthening of Roth's theorem in vector spaces. For every alpha>0, , and prime number p, there is a least positive integer such that if , then for every subset of mathbbFpn of density at least alpha there is a nonzero d for which the density of three-term arithmetic progressions with common difference d is at least . We determine for pgeq19 the tower height of up to an absolute constant factor and an additive term depending only on p. In particular, if we want half the random bound (so ), then the dimension n required is a tower of twos of height Thetaleft((logp)loglog(1/alpha)ight). It turns out that the tower height in general takes on a different form in several different regions of alpha and , and different arguments are used both in the upper and lower bounds to handle these cases.




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