- Series
- Combinatorics Seminar
- Time
- Friday, October 31, 2008 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 255
- Speaker
- Neil Lyall – University of Georgia
- Organizer
- Prasad Tetali
We will discuss some extensions/generalizations of the striking and elegant fact (proved independently by Furstenberg and Sarkozy) that any subset of the integers of positive upper density necessarily contains two distinct elements whose difference is a perfect square. This is joint work with Akos Magyar.