The number of additive triples in subsets of abelian groups

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Abstract

A set of elements of a finite abelian group is called sum-free if it contains no Schur triple, i.e., no triple of elements x, y, z with x + y = z. The study of how large the largest sum-free subset of a given abelian group is had started more than thirty years before it was finally resolved by Green and Ruzsa a decade ago. We address the following more general question. Suppose that a set A of elements of an abelian group G has cardinality a. How many Schur triples must A contain? Moreover, which sets of a elements of G have the smallest number of Schur triples? In this paper, we answer these questions for various groups G and ranges of a.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)495-512
Number of pages18
JournalMathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Volume160
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2016

Funding

FundersFunder number
ETH Zürich and Israel Science Foundation1147/14
Institute for Mathematical Research
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung200021-149111

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