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Constellations in prime elements of number fields

Number Theory 2022-04-05 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Given any number field, we prove that there exist arbitrarily shaped constellations consisting of pairwise non-associate prime elements of the ring of integers. This result extends the celebrated Green-Tao theorem on arithmetic progressions of rational primes and Tao's theorem on constellations of Gaussian primes. Furthermore, we prove a constellation theorem on prime representations of binary quadratic forms with integer coefficients. More precisely, for a non-degenerate primitive binary quadratic form FF which is not negative definite, there exist arbitrarily shaped constellations consisting of pairs of integers (x,y)(x,y) for which F(x,y)F(x,y) is a rational prime. The latter theorem is obtained by extending the framework from the ring of integers to the pair of an order and its invertible fractional ideal.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15669,
  title  = {Constellations in prime elements of number fields},
  author = {Wataru Kai and Masato Mimura and Akihiro Munemasa and Shin-ichiro Seki and Kiyoto Yoshino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15669},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Minor revision (v2), explanations brushed up, 149 pages, 4 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-23T21:38:59.268Z