English

Ergodic Theorem involving additive and multiplicative groups of a field and $\{x+y,xy\}$ patterns

Combinatorics 2015-10-14 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We establish a "diagonal" ergodic theorem involving the additive and multiplicative groups of a countable field KK and, with the help of a new variant of Furstenberg's correspondence principle, prove that any "large" set in KK contains many configurations of the form {x+y,xy}\{x+y,xy\}. We also show that for any finite coloring of KK there are many x,yKx,y\in K such that x,x+yx,x+y and xyxy have the same color. Finally, by utilizing a finitistic version of our main ergodic theorem, we obtain combinatorial results pertaining to finite fields. In particular we obtain an alternative proof for a result obtained by Cilleruelo [11], showing that for any finite field FF and any subsets E1,E2FE_1,E_2\subset F with E1E2>6F|E_1||E_2|>6|F|, there exist u,vFu,v\in F such that u+vE1u+v\in E_1 and uvE2uv\in E_2.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1307.6242,
  title  = {Ergodic Theorem involving additive and multiplicative groups of a field and $\{x+y,xy\}$ patterns},
  author = {Vitaly Bergelson and Joel Moreira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6242},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages, small changes made according to comments from the referees. To appear, Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst