Roth's Theorem in the Piatetski-Shapiro primes

Abstract

Let $\mathbf{P}$ denote the set of prime numbers and, for an appropriate function $h$, define a set ${\mathbf{P}}_h=\{p\in \mathbf{P}:{\exists }_{n\in \mathbb{N}}p=\lfloor h(n)\rfloor \}$. The aim of this paper is to show that every subset of ${\mathbf{P}}_h$ having positive relative upper density contains a nontrivial three-term arithmetic progression. In particular the set of Piatetski--Shapiro primes of fixed type $71/72<\gamma <1$, i.e. $\{p\in \mathbf{P}:{\exists }_{n\in \mathbb{N}}p=\lfloor n^{1/\gamma }\rfloor \}$ has this feature. We show this by proving the counterpart of Bourgain--Green's restriction theorem for the set ${\mathbf{P}}_h$.

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