Ergodic Theorem involving additive and multiplicative groups of a field and $\{x+y,xy\}$ patterns
Abstract
We establish a "diagonal" ergodic theorem involving the additive and multiplicative groups of a countable field and, with the help of a new variant of Furstenberg's correspondence principle, prove that any "large" set in contains many configurations of the form . We also show that for any finite coloring of there are many such that and 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 and any subsets with , there exist such that and .
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@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