Arithmetic regularity as an alternative to transference

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Hauptverfasser: Chow, Sam, Prendiville, Sean, Vazquez, Santiago
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author Chow, Sam
Prendiville, Sean
Vazquez, Santiago
author_facet Chow, Sam
Prendiville, Sean
Vazquez, Santiago
contents Since Green (2005), the Fourier-analytic transference principle has dominated the landscape of combinatorial theorems relative to sparse arithmetic sets. We demonstrate a different approach using arithmetic regularity. This is more versatile and has the potential to succeed when no obvious `dense model' is forthcoming. Moreover, we contend that, just as the traditional circle method disassembles an arithmetic problem into real and $p$-adic parts which can be solved individually, the arithmetic regularity method generalises this to yield an additional `combinatorial' factor. This framework leads directly to a correct lower bound on the number of configurations in a dense set. We illustrate this using a system comprising a linear equation together with a higher-degree equation.
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spellingShingle Arithmetic regularity as an alternative to transference
Chow, Sam
Prendiville, Sean
Vazquez, Santiago
Number Theory
11B30 (primary), 11D45, 11D72, 11L15 (secondary)
Since Green (2005), the Fourier-analytic transference principle has dominated the landscape of combinatorial theorems relative to sparse arithmetic sets. We demonstrate a different approach using arithmetic regularity. This is more versatile and has the potential to succeed when no obvious `dense model' is forthcoming. Moreover, we contend that, just as the traditional circle method disassembles an arithmetic problem into real and $p$-adic parts which can be solved individually, the arithmetic regularity method generalises this to yield an additional `combinatorial' factor. This framework leads directly to a correct lower bound on the number of configurations in a dense set. We illustrate this using a system comprising a linear equation together with a higher-degree equation.
title Arithmetic regularity as an alternative to transference
topic Number Theory
11B30 (primary), 11D45, 11D72, 11L15 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02312