Constellations in prime elements of number fields
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 which is not negative definite, there exist arbitrarily shaped constellations consisting of pairs of integers for which 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
Minor revision (v2), explanations brushed up, 149 pages, 4 figures