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An Invitation to Additive Prime Number Theory

Kumchev, A., Tolev, D. (2005)

Serdica Mathematical Journal

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11D75, 11D85, 11L20, 11N05, 11N35, 11N36, 11P05, 11P32, 11P55.The main purpose of this survey is to introduce the inexperienced reader to additive prime number theory and some related branches of analytic number theory. We state the main problems in the field, sketch their history and the basic machinery used to study them, and try to give a representative sample of the directions of current research.

Arithmetic progressions in sumsets

Imre Z. Ruzsa (1991)

Acta Arithmetica

1. Introduction. Let A,B ⊂ [1,N] be sets of integers, |A|=|B|=cN. Bourgain [2] proved that A+B always contains an arithmetic progression of length e x p ( l o g N ) 1 / 3 - ε . Our aim is to show that this is not very far from the best possible. Theorem 1. Let ε be a positive number. For every prime p > p₀(ε) there is a symmetric set A of residues mod p such that |A| > (1/2-ε)p and A + A contains no arithmetic progression of length (1.1) e x p ( l o g p ) 2 / 3 + ε . A set of residues can be used to get a set of integers in an obvious way. Observe...

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