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Mixing of 3-term progressions in Quasirandom Groups

Combinatorics 2022-09-28 v1 Discrete Mathematics Group Theory

Abstract

In this note, we show the mixing of three-term progressions (x,xg,xg2)(x, xg, xg^2) in every finite quasirandom groups, fully answering a question of Gowers. More precisely, we show that for any DD-quasirandom group GG and any three sets A1,A2,A3GA_1, A_2, A_3 \subset G, we have Prx,yG[xA1,xyA2,xy2A3]i=13PrxG[xAi](2D)14. \left|\Pr_{x,y\sim G}\left[ x \in A_1, xy \in A_2, xy^2 \in A_3\right] - \prod_{i=1}^3 \Pr_{x\sim G}\left[x \in A_i\right] \right| \leq \left(\frac{2}{\sqrt{D}}\right)^{\frac{1}{4}}. Prior to this, Tao answered this question when the underlying quasirandom group is SLd(Fq)\mathrm{SL}_{d}(\mathbb{F}_q). Subsequently, Peluse extended the result to all nonabelian finite simple\textit{simple} groups. In this work, we show that a slight modification of Peluse's argument is sufficient to fully resolve Gower's quasirandom conjecture for 3-term progressions. Surprisingly, unlike the proofs of Tao and Peluse, our proof is elementary and only uses basic facts from nonabelian Fourier analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2109.12627,
  title  = {Mixing of 3-term progressions in Quasirandom Groups},
  author = {Amey Bhangale and Prahladh Harsha and Sourya Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12627},
  year   = {2022}
}

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