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On a theorem of Sarkozy for difference sets and shifted primes

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JOURNAL OF NUMBER THEORY
Volume 211, Issue -, Pages 220-234

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnt.2019.10.009

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Difference sets; Prime numbers; Hardy-Littlewood method

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  1. Clarendon Scholarship of the University of Oxford

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We show that if the difference of two elements of a set A subset of [N] is never one less than a prime number, then vertical bar A vertical bar = O(N exp(-c(log N)(1/3))) for some absolute constant c > 0. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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