Séminaire CAESAR
de combinatoire additive




Séance du 19 mai 2010
(14 heures, Chevaleret, salle 2E01):

Julia WOLF
(Rutgers)

Large sets with little structure


In 1946 Behrend constructed a subset of {1, 2, ..., N} of density exp(-c sqrt(logN)) containing no 3-term arithmetic progressions. This simple and elegant construction remained unsurpassed for over 60 years. We give a new interpretation (joint with Ben Green) of a minuscule recent improvement due to Elkin, and survey other results and open problems in this area.



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