Brown–Graham–Landman conjecture on 2-large and large sets

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A set SNS\subset\mathbb{N} is large if it is a set of dd-topological recurrence for every dd, and it is 2-large if every 2-coloring of N\mathbb{N} has arbitrarily large arithmetic progressions whose common difference lies in SS.

Brown–Graham–Landman conjecture. If SS is not a set of dd-nilBohr recurrence for some dd, then SS is not 22-large.

Brown, Graham, and Landman asked whether every 2-large set is large. The paper has constructed a set that is not large but meets every nil-Bohr set, and conjectures that such nil-Bohr recurrence is necessary for a counterexample to the 2-large versus large question.

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Primary source

Ryan Alweiss, “New Obstacles to Multiple Recurrence”, arXiv:2511.21680 (2025).

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