Roth’s theorem on progressions revisited

This paper is a sequel to [B]. Our main result is an improvement of the density condition for a subset A ⊂ {1,. .. , N } to contain a nontrivial arithmetic progression of length 3. More specifically, we prove the following Theorem 1. (0.1) δ ≫ (log log N) 2 (log N) 2/3 (N assumed sufficiently large), then A contains nontrivial progressions of length 3.