Mixing for three-term progressions in finite simple groups

DOI10.1017/S0305004117000482zbMATH Open1446.20041arXiv1612.07385MaRDI QIDQ4582996FDOQ4582996

Authors: Sarah Peluse 

Publication date: 27 August 2018

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Answering a question of Gowers, Tao proved that any $AimesBimesCsubsetS{L}_d(mathbb{F}_q{)}^3$ contains $|A||B||C|/|S{L}_d(mathbb{F}_q)|+O_d(|S{L}_d(mathbb{F}_q){|}^2/q^{min(d-1,2)/8})$ three-term progressions $(x,xy,x{y}^2)$. Using a modification of Tao's argument, we prove such a mixing result for three-term progressions in all nonabelian finite simple groups except for $PS{L}_2(mathbb{F}_q)$ with an error term that depends on the degree of quasirandomness of the group. This argument also gives an alternative proof of Tao's result when $d>2$, but with the error term $O(|S{L}_d(mathbb{F}_q){|}^2/q^{(d-1)/24})$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07385

Recommendations

• Mixing rank-one actions for infinite sums of finite groups
• Mixing, counting, and equidistribution in Lie groups
• Mixing and covering in the symmetric groups
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4025683
• Multiple Mixing and Rank One Group Actions
• Mixing patterns from the groups \({\sigma}({n}\varphi)\)
• Linear equations over multiplicative groups, recurrences, and mixing. III
• On subsets of finite Abelian groups with no 3-term arithmetic progressions
• A generalization of Meshulam's theorem on subsets of finite abelian groups with no 3-term arithmetic progression

zbMATH Keywords

nonabelian finite simple groupsthree-term progressionD-quasirandom group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Fuchsian groups, coverings of Riemann surfaces, subgroup growth, random quotients and random walks.
• Character degrees and random walks in finite groups of Lie type
• Quasirandom Groups
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Applications of some zeta functions in group theory.
• On the minimal degrees of projective representations of the finite Chevalley groups
• Mixing for progressions in nonabelian groups.

Cited In (7)

• Multiple recurrence in quasirandom groups
• Complete type amalgamation for nonstandard finite groups
• On approximability of satisfiable k-CSPs. II
• On the Gowers trick for classical simple groups
• New-type quasirandom groups and applications
• Triangles in Cartesian squares of quasirandom groups
• Mixing for progressions in nonabelian groups.

This page was built for publication: Mixing for three-term progressions in finite simple groups

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4582996)