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arxiv: math/0108155 · v1 · submitted 2001-08-22 · 🧮 math.CO · math.NT

On sets of integers not containing long arithmetic progressions

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We construct subsets of {1,...,N} of cardinality at least N exp(-C(log N)^{1/(k+1)}) which do not contain arithmetic progressions of length 2^k+1. This extends a result of Behrend (1946) concerning sets which do not contain aritmetic progressions of length 3.

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