Further bounds in the polynomial Szemer\'edi theorem

Abstract

We show that there exists $c>0$ such that any subset of $\{1,\ldots,N\}$ having size $\gg N / \exp( (\log\log\log N)^c )$ contains a nontrivial pattern of the form $x,x+y,x+2y,x+y^3$. It is the first configuration of complexity strictly greater than $0$, other than refinements of arithmetic progressions, for which quantitative bounds over integers were obtained.