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Quantitative bounds for Gowers uniformity of the M\"obius and von Mangoldt functions

Number Theory 2024-08-19 v4 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We establish quantitative bounds on the Uk[N]U^k[N] Gowers norms of the M\"obius function μ\mu and the von Mangoldt function Λ\Lambda for all kk, with error terms of shape O((loglogN)c)O((\log\log N)^{-c}). As a consequence, we obtain quantitative bounds for the number of solutions to any linear system of equations of finite complexity in the primes, with the same shape of error terms. We also obtain the first quantitative bounds on the size of sets containing no kk-term arithmetic progressions with shifted prime difference.

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@article{arxiv.2107.02158,
  title  = {Quantitative bounds for Gowers uniformity of the M\"obius and von Mangoldt functions},
  author = {Terence Tao and Joni Teräväinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02158},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

57 pages; Further referee comments incorporated; to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc