Characteristic polynomial patterns in difference sets of matrices

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDW008MaRDI QIDQ2801724zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Björklund, Alexander Fish

Publication date 21 April 2016

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03380

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic polynomialshomogeneous spaceinteger square-matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems of additive number theory, including sumsets (11P70) Algebraic systems of matrices (15A30)

Abstract: We show that for every subset $E$ of positive density in the set of integer square-matrices with zero traces, there exists an integer $kgeq1$ such that the set of characteristic polynomials of matrices in $E-E$ contains the set of emph{all} characteristic polynomials of integer matrices with zero traces and entries divisible by $k$. Our theorem is derived from results by Benoist-Quint on measure rigidity for actions on homogeneous spaces.

Review text

The authors establish an analogue of Furstenberg-Sárközy theorem for difference sets of matrices. Their main result is: For every subset \(E\) of positive density in the set of integer square-matrices with zero traces, there exists an integer \(k\geq 1\) such that the set of characteristic polynomials of matrices in \(E-E\) contains the set of all characteristic polynomials of integer matrices with zero traces and entries divisible by \(k\). A measure rigidity result for actions on homogeneous spaces by Benoist-Quint is used for the proof of this result. Finally, the authors also show a ``sum-product analogue of Bogolyubov's Theorem [\textit{I. Z. Ruzsa}, in: Combinatorial number theory and additive group theory. With a foreword by Javier Cilleruelo, Marc Noy and Oriol Serra (Coordinators of the DocCourse). Basel: Birkhäuser. 87--210 (2009; Zbl 1221.11026)] as an application of the main result.

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