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A higher-dimensional Siegel-Walfisz theorem

Number Theory 2016-07-25 v1

Abstract

The Green-Tao-Ziegler theorem provides asymptotics for the number of prime tuples of the form (ψ1(n),,ψt(n))(\psi_1(n),\ldots,\psi_t(n)) when nn ranges among the integer vectors of a convex body K[N,N]dK\subset [-N,N]^d and Ψ=(ψ1,,ψt)\Psi=(\psi_1,\ldots,\psi_t) is a system of affine-linear forms whose linear coefficients remain bounded (in terms of NN). In the t=1t=1 case, the Siegel-Walfisz theorem shows that the asymptotic still holds when the coefficients vary like a power of logN\log N. We prove a higher-dimensional (i.e. t>1t>1) version of this fact. We provide natural examples where our theorem goes beyond the one of Green and Tao, such as the count of arithmetic of progressions of step logN\lfloor \log N\rfloor times a prime in the primes up to NN. We also apply our theorem to the determination of asymptotics for the number of linear patterns in a dense subset of the primes, namely the primes pp for which p1p-1 is squarefree. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such result in dense subsets of primes save for congruence classes.

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@article{arxiv.1607.06625,
  title  = {A higher-dimensional Siegel-Walfisz theorem},
  author = {Pierre-Yves Bienvenu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06625},
  year   = {2016}
}

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20 pages

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