Arithmetic Progressions in Abundance by Combinatorial Tools
Abstract
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Using the algebraic structure of the Stone-Cech compactification of the integers, Furstenberg and Glasner proved that for arbitrary k, every piecewise syndetic set contains a piecewise syndetic set of k-term arithmetic progressions.
We present a purely combinatorial argument which allows to derive this result directly from van der Waerden's Theorem.