{ "id": "1310.5275", "version": "v4", "published": "2013-10-19T22:25:17.000Z", "updated": "2015-07-09T04:15:56.000Z", "title": "Polynomials and Primes in Generalized Arithmetic Progressions (Revised Version)", "authors": [ "Ernie Croot", "Neil Lyall", "Alex Rice" ], "comment": "14 pages, typos corrected, numerology improved, properness hypotheses eliminated", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.CA" ], "abstract": "We provide upper bounds on the density of a symmetric generalized arithmetic progression lacking nonzero elements of the form h(n) for natural numbers n, or h(p) with p prime, for appropriate polynomials h with integer coefficients. The prime variant can be interpreted as a multi-dimensional, polynomial extension of Linnik's Theorem. This version is a revision of the published version. Most notably, the properness hypotheses have been removed from Theorems 2 and 3, and the numerology in Theorem 2 has been improved.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2014-07-10T18:54:33.000Z", "title": "Polynomials and Primes in Generalized Arithmetic Progressions", "abstract": "We provide upper bounds on the density of a symmetric generalized arithmetic progression lacking nonzero elements of the form h(n) for natural numbers n, or h(p) with p prime, for appropriate polynomials h with integer coefficients. The prime variant can be interpreted as a multi-dimensional, polynomial extension of Linnik's Theorem.", "comment": "14 pages, typos and references corrected, funding info added, final version", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v4", "updated": "2015-07-09T04:15:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "polynomial", "arithmetic progression lacking nonzero elements", "generalized arithmetic progression lacking nonzero", "upper bounds", "symmetric generalized arithmetic progression lacking" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 14, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013arXiv1310.5275C" } } }