Two-Point Polynomial Patterns in Subsets of Positive Density in ℝn

Abstract

Abstract Let $\gamma (t)=(P_{1}(t),\ldots ,P_{n}(t))$ where $P_{i}$ is a real polynomial with zero constant term for each $1\leq i\leq n$. We will show the existence of the configuration $\{x,x+\gamma (t)\}$ in sets of positive density $\epsilon $ in $[0,1]^{n}$ with a gap estimate $t\geq \delta (\epsilon )$ when $P_{i}$’s are arbitrary, and in $[0,N]^{n}$ with a gap estimate $t\geq \delta (\epsilon )N^{n}$ when $P_{i}$’s are of distinct degrees where $\delta (\epsilon )=\exp \left (-\exp \left (c\epsilon ^{-4}\right )\right )$ and $c$ only depends on $\gamma $. To prove these two results, decay estimates of certain oscillatory integral operators and Bourgain’s reduction are primarily utilised. For the first result, dimension-reducing arguments are also required to handle the linear dependency. For the second one, we will prove a stronger result instead, since then an anisotropic rescaling is allowed in the proof to eliminate the dependence of the decay estimate on $N$. And as a byproduct, using the strategy token to prove the latter case, we extend the corner-type Roth theorem previously proven by the first author and Guo.