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Sarnak's Program for Erd\H{o}s Sieves. Part II: Measure Systems and Applications

Dynamical Systems 2026-03-02 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

This paper is the second part of a two-part article where we generalize Sarnak's program to sets where we remove congruence classes modulo some infinite set B\mathcal{B} of ideals of an \'etale Q\mathbb{Q}-algebra KK, which we denote by Erd\H{o}s sieves. Given a sieve RR we define the set FR\mathcal{F}_R of algebraic integers in KK not contained in any of the congruence classes of RR. We associate to each sieve two measure-theoretical dynamical systems XRX_R (the orbit closure of FR\mathcal{F}_R) and ΩR\Omega_R (the set of RR-admissible sets) and show how they are related. We show that the system associated to ΩR\Omega_R is isomorphic to an ergodic rotation of a compact abelian group, and compute its spectrum. As applications we show results about infinite sumsets in the integers, investigate the case where FR\mathcal{F}_R is the squarefree values of some polynomial, and show a prime number theorem for RR-free numbers.

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@article{arxiv.2602.24034,
  title  = {Sarnak's Program for Erd\H{o}s Sieves. Part II: Measure Systems and Applications},
  author = {Francisco Araújo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.24034},
  year   = {2026}
}

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56 pages