Multiple recurrence in quasirandom groups
Abstract
We establish a new mixing theorem for quasirandom groups (finite groups with no low-dimensional unitary representations) which, informally speaking, asserts that if are drawn uniformly at random from , then the quadruple behaves like a random tuple in , subject to the obvious constraint that and are conjugate to each other. The proof is non-elementary, proceeding by first using an ultraproduct construction to replace the finitary claim on quasirandom groups with an infinitary analogue concerning a limiting group object that we call an \emph{ultra quasirandom group}, and then using the machinery of idempotent ultrafilters to establish the required mixing property for such groups. Some simpler recurrence theorems (involving tuples such as ) are also presented, as well as some further discussion of specific examples of ultra quasirandom groups.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1211.6372,
title = {Multiple recurrence in quasirandom groups},
author = {Vitaly Bergelson and Terence Tao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6372},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
40 pages, no figures, to appear, GAFA. This is the final version, incorporating the referee suggestions