Obstructions to uniformity and arithmetic patterns in the primes

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2006.V2.N2.A2zbMATH Open1105.11032OpenAlexW2963148321WikidataQ30052197 ScholiaQ30052197MaRDI QIDQ851471FDOQ851471

Authors Terence Tao 

Publication date 21 November 2006

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505402

zbMATH Keywords

prime numbersadditive problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic progressions (11B25) Primes in congruence classes (11N13)

Abstract: In this expository article, we describe the recent approach, motivated by ergodic theory, towards detecting arithmetic patterns in the primes, and in particular establishing that the primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. One of the driving philosophies is to identify precisely what the obstructions could be that prevent the primes (or any other set) from behaving ``randomly, and then either show that the obstructions do not actually occur, or else convert the obstructions into usable structural information on the primes.

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