Geometric-progression-free sets over quadratic number fields

DOI10.1017/S030821051600010XMaRDI QIDQ5267451zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Best, Karen Huan, Nathan McNew, Steven J. Miller, Jasmine Powell, Kimsy Tor, Madeleine Weinstein

Publication date 13 June 2017

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0999

zbMATH Keywords

geometric-progression-free setsquadratic number fieldsRamsey theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ramsey theory (05D10) Density, gaps, topology (11B05) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers (11R04) Quadratic extensions (11R11) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60)

Abstract: A problem of recent interest has been to study how large subsets of the natural numbers can be while avoiding 3-term geometric progressions. Building on recent progress on this problem, we consider the analogous problem over quadratic number fields. We first construct high-density subsets of the algebraic integers of an imaginary quadratic number field that avoid 3-term geometric progressions. When unique factorization fails or over a real quadratic number field, we instead look at subsets of ideals of the ring of integers. Our approach here is to construct sets "greedily," a generalization of the greedy set of rational integers considered by Rankin. We then describe the densities of these sets in terms of values of the Dedekind zeta function. Next, we consider geometric-progression-free sets with large upper density. We generalize an argument by Riddell to obtain upper bounds for the upper density of geometric-progression-free subsets, and construct sets avoiding geometric progressions with high upper density to obtain lower bounds for the supremum of the upper density of all such subsets. Both arguments depend critically on the elements with small norm in the ring of integers.

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