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ARITHMETIC COMBINATORICS
Topic:Difference Sets and the Primes
Speaker:Tom Sanders
Affiliation:University of Cambridge, UK and Member, School of Mathematics
Date:Tuesday, October 2
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101
We shall discuss joint work with I Z Ruzsa in which it is shown that if A is a subset of {1,..,N} such that its difference set contains no number of the form $p-1$ for $p$ a prime, then $|A|=O(N\exp(-c\sqrt{4}{\log N}))$ for some absolute $c>0$.