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BC-MIT Number Theory Seminar

Tue Apr 9, 2024 4:30–5:30 PM

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Off-campus

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Speaker: Michael Bennett (University of British Columbia)Title: Arithmetic progressions in sumsets of geometric progressionsAbstract:If A and B are two geometric progressions, we characterize all 3-term arithmetic progressions in the sumset A+B. Somewhat surprisingly, while mostly elementary, this appears to require quite deep machinery from Diophantine Approximation.
  • BC-MIT Number Theory Seminar
    Speaker: Michael Bennett (University of British Columbia)Title: Arithmetic progressions in sumsets of geometric progressionsAbstract:If A and B are two geometric progressions, we characterize all 3-term arithmetic progressions in the sumset A+B. Somewhat surprisingly, while mostly elementary, this appears to require quite deep machinery from Diophantine Approximation.