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We study some properties of sets of differences of dense sets in ℤ2 and ℤ3 and their interplay with Bohr neighbourhoods in ℤ. We obtain, inter alia, the following results.
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If E ⊂ ℤ2, \( \bar d \)(E) > 0 and p i , q i ∈ ℤ[x], i = 1, ..., m satisfy p i (0) = q i (0) = 0, then there exists B ⊂ ℤ such that \( \bar d \)(B) > 0 and
$$ E - E \supset \bigcup\limits_{i = 1}^m {(p_i (B) \times q_i (B))} . $$ -
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If A ⊂ ℤ with \( \bar d \)(A) > 0, then for any r, s, t such that r + s + t = 0 the set rA + sA + tA is a Bohr neighbourhood of 0.
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For any 0 < α < 1/2 there exists a set E ⊂ ℤ3 with \( \bar d \)(E) > 0 such that E − E does not contain a set of the form B × B × B, where B ⊂ ℤ and \( \bar d \)(B) > 0.
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First author was supported by NSF grant DMS-0600042.
Second author was supported by Hungarian National Foundation for Scientific Research (OTKA), Grants No. K 61908, T 42750, T 43623.
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Bergelson, V., Ruzsa, I.Z. Sumsets in difference sets. Isr. J. Math. 174, 1–18 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-009-0100-3
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