Primitive sets and von Mangoldt chains: Erdős Problem #1196 and beyond

Boris Alexeev, Kevin Barreto, Yanyang Li, Jared Duker Lichtman, Liam Price, Jibran Iqbal Shah, Quanyu Tang, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper Primitive sets and von Mangoldt chains: Erdős Problem #1196 and beyond. This paper (which is a work in progress) represents our efforts to digest and document the recent flurry of developments around the following problem of Erdős, Sárközy, and Szemerédi on primitive sets: Conjecture 1 (Erdős problem #1196) Suppose that is a primitive set of ...