The primes contain arbitrarily long polynomial progressions
Abstract
We establish the existence of infinitely many \emph{polynomial} progressions in the primes; more precisely, given any integer-valued polynomials in one unknown with and any , we show that there are infinitely many integers with such that are simultaneously prime. The arguments are based on those in Green and Tao, which treated the linear case and ; the main new features are a localization of the shift parameters (and the attendant Gowers norm objects) to both coarse and fine scales, the use of PET induction to linearize the polynomial averaging, and some elementary estimates for the number of points over finite fields in certain algebraic varieties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0610050,
title = {The primes contain arbitrarily long polynomial progressions},
author = {Terence Tao and Tamar Ziegler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0610050},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
82 pages, 1 figure. A minor error in the paper (concerning the definition of the polynomial forms condition, which had too weak of a requirement on the degree of the polynomials involved) has been fixed