{"title":"Thick sets and the Central Set Theorem","authors":"Teng Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2025.103645","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In 1981, Furstenberg introduced the notion of central sets, and he established the Central Set Theorem. Since then, several generalizations of this result have been found, where a significant version is obtained by De, Hindman and Strauss. In this article, we find that the Central Set Theorem can be improved further. And we observe that there are some connections between thick sets and <em>J</em>-sets. Based on that, we establish a CST-type result for thick sets. Moreover, we introduce a new notion called super thick sets, and find that this notion has rich combinatorial properties. In particular, it contains additive and multiplicative structures, and it has a CST-type result for two operations. In addition, it can be partitioned into <em>κ</em> super thick subsets in very weakly cancellative weak rings with size <em>κ</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"177 1","pages":"Article 103645"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007225000946","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"LOGIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In 1981, Furstenberg introduced the notion of central sets, and he established the Central Set Theorem. Since then, several generalizations of this result have been found, where a significant version is obtained by De, Hindman and Strauss. In this article, we find that the Central Set Theorem can be improved further. And we observe that there are some connections between thick sets and J-sets. Based on that, we establish a CST-type result for thick sets. Moreover, we introduce a new notion called super thick sets, and find that this notion has rich combinatorial properties. In particular, it contains additive and multiplicative structures, and it has a CST-type result for two operations. In addition, it can be partitioned into κ super thick subsets in very weakly cancellative weak rings with size κ.
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The journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic publishes high quality papers in all areas of mathematical logic as well as applications of logic in mathematics, in theoretical computer science and in other related disciplines. All submissions to the journal should be mathematically correct, well written (preferably in English)and contain relevant new results that are of significant interest to a substantial number of logicians. The journal also considers submissions that are somewhat too long to be published by other journals while being too short to form a separate memoir provided that they are of particular outstanding quality and broad interest. In addition, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic occasionally publishes special issues of selected papers from well-chosen conferences in pure and applied logic.