A Probabilistic Technique for Finding Almost Periods in Additive Combinatorics

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Ernie Croot – School of Math, Georgia Tech
Organizer
Huy Huynh

Please Note: Hosted by: Huy Huynh and Yao Li

Olof Sisask and myself have produced a new probabilistic technique for finding `almost periods' of convolutions of subsets of finite groups. In this talk I will explain how this has allowed us to give (just recently) new bounds on the length of the longest arithmetic progression in a sumset A+A.