Large sets avoiding Infinite arithmetic / geometric progressions

DOI10.14321/REALANALEXCH.48.2.1668676378arXiv2210.09284OpenAlexW4387395414MaRDI QIDQ6183680FDOQ6183680

Authors: Alex Burgin, Samuel I. Goldberg, Tamás Keleti, Connor MacMahon, Xian-Zhi Wang 

Publication date: 4 January 2024

Published in: Real Analysis Exchange (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study some variants of the ErdH{o}s similarity problem. We pose the question if every measurable subset of the real line with positive measure contains a similar copy of an infinite geometric progression. We construct a compact subset $E$ of the real line such that $0$ is a Lebesgue density point of $E$, but $E$ does not contain any (non-constant) infinite geometric progression. We give a sufficient density type condition that guarantees that a set contains an infinite geometric progression. By slightly improving a recent result of Bradford, Kohut and Mooroogen arXiv:2205.04786, we construct a closed set $Fsubset[0,infty)$ such that the measure of $Fcap[t,t+1]$ tends to $1$ at infinity but $F$ does not contain any infinite arithmetic progression. We also slightly improve a more general recent result by Kolountzakis and Papageorgiou arXiv:2208.02637 for more general sequences. We give a sufficient condition that guarantees that a given Cantor type set contains at least one infinite geometric progression with any quotient between $0$ and $1$. This can be applied to most symmetric Cantor sets of positive measure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09284

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zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic progressionLebesgue measurepatterngeometric progressionaffine copy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical measure theory (28A99)

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• Construction of sets of positive measure not containing an affine image of a given infinite structure
• On a Problem of Erdos on Sequences and Measurable Sets
• Infinite Patterns that can be Avoided by Measure
• The Erdős similarity problem: a survey
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