The non-degenerate smooth Roth conjecture for thick Cantor sets

Let KRK\subset\mathbb{R} be a Cantor set satisfying τ(K)>1\tau(K)>1, and let ff be a continuously differentiable function satisfying f(0)=0f(0)=0 and f(0)>0f'(0)>0. Non-degenerate smooth Roth conjecture. There exist xRx\in\mathbb{R} and t>0t>0 such that

{xt,x,x+f(t)}K.\{x-t,x,x+f(t)\}\subset K.

The conjecture would remove the additional derivative bounds required by the paper's perturbative proof of its non-linear Roth theorem, extending the result to every continuously differentiable function with positive derivative at the origin. Its status is not resolved in the supplied source.

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Alex McDonald and Micah Nguyen, “A non-linear Roth theorem for thick Cantor sets”, arXiv:2509.17880 (2026).

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