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Pointwise convergence of bilinear polynomial averages over the primes

Dynamical Systems 2026-01-26 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs Number Theory

Abstract

We show that on a σ\sigma-finite measure preserving system X=(X,ν,T)X = (X,\nu, T), the non-conventional ergodic averages En[N]Λ(n)f(Tnx)g(TP(n)x) \mathbb{E}_{n \in [N]} \Lambda(n) f(T^n x) g(T^{P(n)} x) converge pointwise almost everywhere for fLp1(X)f \in L^{p_1}(X), gLp2(X)g \in L^{p_2}(X), and 1/p1+1/p211/p_1 + 1/p_2 \leq 1, where PP is a polynomial with integer coefficients of degree at least 22. This had previously been established with the von Mangoldt weight Λ\Lambda replaced by the constant weight 11 by the first and third authors with Mirek, and by the M\"obius weight μ\mu by the fourth author. The proof is based on combining tools from both of these papers, together with several Gowers norm and polynomial averaging operator estimates on approximants to the von Mangoldt function of ''Cram\'er'' and ''Heath-Brown'' type.

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@article{arxiv.2409.10510,
  title  = {Pointwise convergence of bilinear polynomial averages over the primes},
  author = {Ben Krause and Hamed Mousavi and Terence Tao and Joni Teräväinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.10510},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

38 pages; referee comments incorporated