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 -finite measure preserving system , the non-conventional ergodic averages converge pointwise almost everywhere for , , and , where is a polynomial with integer coefficients of degree at least . This had previously been established with the von Mangoldt weight replaced by the constant weight by the first and third authors with Mirek, and by the M\"obius weight 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.
Cite
@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