Extensions of the Furstenberg-Sárközy theorem via the arithmetic level-$d$ inequality

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Autori principali: Adajar, Carlo Francisco E., Agrawal, Rishika, Choudhuri, Mukul Rai, Chuah, Chian Yeong, Fan, Steve, Hegde, Swaroop, Lott, Andrew, Nandakumar, Krishnamohan, Ponagandla, Nagendar Reddy
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author Adajar, Carlo Francisco E.
Agrawal, Rishika
Choudhuri, Mukul Rai
Chuah, Chian Yeong
Fan, Steve
Hegde, Swaroop
Lott, Andrew
Nandakumar, Krishnamohan
Ponagandla, Nagendar Reddy
author_facet Adajar, Carlo Francisco E.
Agrawal, Rishika
Choudhuri, Mukul Rai
Chuah, Chian Yeong
Fan, Steve
Hegde, Swaroop
Lott, Andrew
Nandakumar, Krishnamohan
Ponagandla, Nagendar Reddy
contents Very recently, Green and Sawhney obtained a quasipolynomial bound in the Furstenberg--Sárközy theorem for square differences by proving an ''arithmetic level-$d$'' inequality, thereby yielding a greatly improved density increment scheme. We adapt their method to general intersective polynomials $h\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$ and obtain an analogous quasipolynomial upper bound for the largest subset of $\{1,2,\dots,X\}$ whose difference set contains no nonzero element of the form $h(n)$ with $n\in \mathbb{Z}$. This is the best quantitative upper bound presently known for sets lacking intersective polynomial differences. In contrast to the square case, extending the method to general intersective polynomials requires performing a density increment iteration in which the underlying polynomial changes at each step; a key contribution of this paper is to show that the arithmetic level-$d$ inequality remains effective uniformly across all auxiliary polynomials arising in the iteration. We also develop smoothly weighted versions of the exponential sum estimates of Rice.
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spellingShingle Extensions of the Furstenberg-Sárközy theorem via the arithmetic level-$d$ inequality
Adajar, Carlo Francisco E.
Agrawal, Rishika
Choudhuri, Mukul Rai
Chuah, Chian Yeong
Fan, Steve
Hegde, Swaroop
Lott, Andrew
Nandakumar, Krishnamohan
Ponagandla, Nagendar Reddy
Number Theory
Combinatorics
11P55
Very recently, Green and Sawhney obtained a quasipolynomial bound in the Furstenberg--Sárközy theorem for square differences by proving an ''arithmetic level-$d$'' inequality, thereby yielding a greatly improved density increment scheme. We adapt their method to general intersective polynomials $h\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$ and obtain an analogous quasipolynomial upper bound for the largest subset of $\{1,2,\dots,X\}$ whose difference set contains no nonzero element of the form $h(n)$ with $n\in \mathbb{Z}$. This is the best quantitative upper bound presently known for sets lacking intersective polynomial differences. In contrast to the square case, extending the method to general intersective polynomials requires performing a density increment iteration in which the underlying polynomial changes at each step; a key contribution of this paper is to show that the arithmetic level-$d$ inequality remains effective uniformly across all auxiliary polynomials arising in the iteration. We also develop smoothly weighted versions of the exponential sum estimates of Rice.
title Extensions of the Furstenberg-Sárközy theorem via the arithmetic level-$d$ inequality
topic Number Theory
Combinatorics
11P55
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16216