On solution-free sets for simultaneous additive equations
Speaker:
Matthew Smith (University of Georgia)
Date and Time:
Friday, April 11, 2008 - 1:30pm to 1:50pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We use a combination of the Hardy-Littlewood circle method and the methods developed by Gowers in his recent proof of Szemer´edi’s Theorem on long arithmetic progressions to obtain quantitative estimates for the upper density of a set of integers containing no solutions to a translation and dilation invariant system of diagonal polynomials of degrees 1, 2, . . . , k. We will also explore the question of finding a bound for the upper density of a subset of the primes containing no solutions to a system of this type in the case k = 2.