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Quantitative equidistribution for certain quadruples in quasi-random groups

Combinatorics 2019-02-20 v3 Dynamical Systems Group Theory

Abstract

In a recent paper (arXiv:1211.6372), Bergelson and Tao proved that if GG is a DD-quasi-random group, and xx,gg are drawn uniformly and independently from GG, then the quadruple (g,x,gx,xg)(g,x,gx,xg) is roughly equidistributed in the subset of G4G^4 defined by the constraint that the last two coordinates lie in the same conjugacy class. Their proof gives only a qualitative version of this result. The present notes gives a rather more elementary proof which improves this to an explicit polynomial bound in D1D^{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1310.6781,
  title  = {Quantitative equidistribution for certain quadruples in quasi-random groups},
  author = {Tim Austin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6781},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5 pages; [TDA Jun 6, 2014] Updated with reference to arxiv:1405.5629 [v3:] This preprint has been re-written to correct to a mistake in the proof of Corollary 3. The journal published that correction in a separate erratum

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