The affine sieve beyond expansion. I: Thin hypotenuses

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNU222MaRDI QIDQ3450210zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean Bourgain, Alex Kontorovich

Publication date 3 November 2015

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3535

zbMATH Keywords

affine sieveArchimedean ballbilinear formdispersion methodexponent of distributionHausdorff's dimensionhypotenuse functionlevel of distributionmultiplicative functionorbitPythagorean triplesieve dimensionspectral gapthin setZariski's closure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sieves (11N35) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

Abstract: We study an instance of the Affine Sieve, producing a level of distribution beyond that which can be obtained from current techniques, even assuming a Selberg/Ramanujan-type spectral gap. In particular, we consider the set of hypotenuses in a thin orbit of Pythagorean triples. Previous work [Kon07, Kon09, KO12] gave an exponent of distribution alpha < 1/12 coming from Gamburd's [Gam02] gap theta = 5/6, thereby producing R = 13 almost primes in this linear sieve problem (see Sec. 1 for definitions). If conditioned on a best possible gap theta = 1/2, the known method would give an exponent alpha < 1/4, and R = 5 almost primes. The exponent 1/4 is the natural analogue of the "Bombieri-Vinogradov" range of distribution for this problem, see Remark 1.19. In this paper, we unconditionally prove the exponent alpha < 7/24 (in the "Elliott-Halberstam" range), thereby producing R = 4 almost primes. The main tools involve developing bilinear forms and the dispersion method in the range of incomplete sums for this Affine Sieve problem.

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