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Pushing Behrend Around
Erdos and Turan asked in 1936: What is the largest subset of {1,2,…,n} without a 3-term arithmetic progression? In 1946 Behrend found an example with Now, sixty years later, Michael Elkin pushed the the factor from the denominator to the enumerator, … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Updates
Tagged Arithmetic progressions, Roth's theorem, Szemeredi's theorem
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