2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/170721We provide a short proof of a recent result of Elkin in which large subsets of the integers 1 up to N free of 3-term progressions are constructed.4 pages, submitted to volume in honour of Mel NathansonCombinatoricsNumber TheoryA note on Elkin's improvement of Behrend's constructiontext