The uniform sets bounded-sums conjecture

Let ANA\subset\mathbb{N} and k2k\geq2. Let Φ=(ΦN)NN\Phi=(\Phi_N)_{N\in\mathbb{N}} be a Følner sequence. A set is Uk(Φ)\mathsf{U}^k(\Phi)-uniform when its indicator has correlations along Φ\Phi, positive density along Φ\Phi, and vanishing Uk(Φ)\mathsf{U}^k(\Phi) seminorm after subtracting its density. For an infinite BNB\subset\mathbb{N} and N\ell\in\mathbb{N}, write

B={nFn:FB, F=}.B^{\oplus\ell}=\left\{\sum_{n\in F}n:F\subset B,\ |F|=\ell\right\}.

Uniform sets bounded-sums conjecture. If AA is Uk(Φ)\mathsf{U}^k(\Phi)-uniform for some Følner sequence Φ\Phi, then for every 1,,kN\ell_1,\ldots,\ell_k\in\mathbb{N} there is an infinite set BNB\subset\mathbb{N} such that

B1,B2,,BkA.B^{\oplus\ell_1},B^{\oplus\ell_2},\ldots,B^{\oplus\ell_k}\subset A.

The conjecture proposes that the relevant uniformity hypotheses remove the shift required in the general positive-density problem. It is stated without a resolution in the supplied text.

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Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian K. Richter and Donald Robertson, “Problems on infinite sumset configurations in the integers and beyond”, arXiv:2311.06197 (2025).

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