A relative Szemerédi theorem

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DOI10.1007/S00039-015-0324-9zbMATH Open1345.11008arXiv1305.5440OpenAlexW1836492331WikidataQ56341574 ScholiaQ56341574MaRDI QIDQ2355780FDOQ2355780


Authors: David Conlon, Jacob Fox, Yufei Zhao Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 July 2015

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The celebrated Green-Tao theorem states that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions in the primes. One of the main ingredients in their proof is a relative Szemer'edi theorem which says that any subset of a pseudorandom set of integers of positive relative density contains long arithmetic progressions. In this paper, we give a simple proof of a strengthening of the relative Szemer'edi theorem, showing that a much weaker pseudorandomness condition is sufficient. Our strengthened version can be applied to give the first relative Szemer'edi theorem for k-term arithmetic progressions in pseudorandom subsets of mathbbZN of density Nck. The key component in our proof is an extension of the regularity method to sparse pseudorandom hypergraphs, which we believe to be interesting in its own right. From this we derive a relative extension of the hypergraph removal lemma. This is a strengthening of an earlier theorem used by Tao in his proof that the Gaussian primes contain arbitrarily shaped constellations and, by standard arguments, allows us to deduce the relative Szemer'edi theorem.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5440




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