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New bounds for Szemeredi's theorem, Ia: Progressions of length 4 in finite field geometries revisited2 comments

Terence Tao wrote 2 weeks ago: Ben Green and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “New bounds for Szemeredi’s th … more →

Tags: paper, arithmetic progressions, Ben Green, finite fields, Szemeredi's theorem

Some ingredients in Szemerédi's proof of Szemerédi's theorem11 comments

Terence Tao wrote 2 months ago: A few days ago, Endre Szemerédi was awarded the 2012 Abel prize “for his fundamental co … more →

Tags: Expository, abel prize, Endre Szemeredi, szemeredi regularity lemma, Szemeredi's theorem, van der Waerden's theorem

254A, addendum: Some notes on nilprogressions3 comments

Terence Tao wrote 2 months ago: This is an addendum to last quarter’s course notes on Hilbert’s fifth problem, which I a … more →

Tags: 254A - Hilbert's fifth problem, math.GR, nilpotent groups, nilprogressions

254B, Notes 7: Sieving and expanders9 comments

Terence Tao wrote 2 months ago: In this final set of course notes, we discuss how (a generalisation of) the expansion results obtain … more →

Tags: 254B - expansion in groups, math.GR, math.NT, almost primes, beta sieve, Cayley graphs, expander graphs, sieve theory, strong approximation property

254B, Notes 5: Product theorems, pivot arguments, and the Larsen-Pink non-concentration inequality5 comments

Terence Tao wrote 3 months ago: In the previous set of notes, we saw that one could derive expansion of Cayley graphs from three ing … more →

Tags: 254B - expansion in groups, math.AG, math.GR, Larsen-Pink inequality, product theorems, special linear group, sum-product theorems, ultraproducts

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Tags: Dubstep, Drumstep, Electro, Original, point blank, popeska, gangstah, Siberun, Stargazer

254B, Notes 4: The Bourgain-Gamburd expansion machine6 comments

Terence Tao wrote 4 months ago: We have now seen two ways to construct expander Cayley graphs . The first, discussed in Notes 2, is … more →

Tags: 254B - expansion in groups, additive combinatorics, Balog-Szemeredi-Gowers lemma, expander graphs, Graph Theory

Continued fractions, Bohr sets, and the Littlewood conjecture13 comments

Terence Tao wrote 4 months ago: Let be an element of the unit circle, let , and let . We define the (rank one) Bohr set to be the se … more →

Tags: Expository, Question, math.NT, additive combinatorics, Littlewood conjecture, generalised arithmetic progressions, continued fractions, Bohr sets

A variant of Kemperman's theorem2 comments

Terence Tao wrote 5 months ago: In 1964, Kemperman established the following result: Theorem 1 Let be a compact connected group, wit … more →

Tags: Expository, additive combinatorics, Haar measure, Kemperman's theorem, Cauchy-Davenport inequality

A nilpotent Freiman dimension lemma1 comment

Terence Tao wrote 5 months ago: Emmanuel Breuillard, Ben Green and I have just uploaded to the arXiv the short paper “A nilpot … more →

Tags: math.GR, paper, Ben Green, Emmanuel Breuillard, freiman theorems, nilpotent groups

254B, Notes 1: Basic theory of expander graphs34 comments

Terence Tao wrote 5 months ago: The objective of this course is to present a number of recent constructions of expander graphs, whic … more →

Tags: 254B - expansion in groups, math.SP, expander graph, isoperimetric inequality, Random Walks!, spectral gap

The number of cycles in a random permutation14 comments

Terence Tao wrote 6 months ago: Let be a natural number, and let be a permutation of , drawn uniformly at random. Using the cycle de … more →

Tags: Expository, math.PR, permutations, cycles, bijective proof, Stirling numbers of the first kind

Some notes on the Coven-Meyerowitz conjecture9 comments

Terence Tao wrote 6 months ago: Let be a finite additive group. A tiling pair is a pair of non-empty subsets such that every element … more →

Tags: Expository, math.GR, Question, Coven-Meyerowitz conjecture, Fuglede conjecture, Tiling

254A, Notes 8: The microstructure of approximate groups4 comments

Terence Tao wrote 6 months ago: A common theme in mathematical analysis (particularly in analysis of a “geometric” or … more →

Tags: 254A - Hilbert's fifth problem, math.GR, approximate groups, Gleason-Yamabe theorem, good models, Lie Groups, Local Groups, nilpotent groups, ultra approximate groups

The structure of approximate groups19 comments

Terence Tao wrote 7 months ago: Emmanuel Breuillard, Ben Green, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “The structure … more →

Tags: paper, math.MG, math.GR, nonstandard analysis, Ben Green, Gromov's theorem, nilpotent groups, Emmanuel Breuillard, approximate groups

254A, Notes 0: Hilbert's fifth problem and related topics27 comments

Terence Tao wrote 9 months ago: This fall (starting Monday, September 26), I will be teaching a graduate topics course which I have … more →

Tags: Admin, math.MG, math.LO, math.GR, 254A - Hilbert's fifth problem, Freiman's theorem, polynomial growth, Gromov's theorem, nilpotent groups

The Furstenberg multiple recurrence theorem and finite extensions1 comment

Terence Tao wrote 11 months ago: In 1977, Furstenberg established his multiple recurrence theorem: Theorem 1 (Furstenberg multiple re … more →

Tags: Expository, math.DS, Szemeredi's theorem, compact extensions, Furstenberg recurrence theorem, finite extensions

Higher order Fourier analysis20 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: I’ve just finished writing the first draft of my third book coming out of the 2010 blog posts, … more →

Tags: math.CA, book, 254B - Higher order Fourier analysis, Fourier analysis, Gowers uniformity norms

An incidence theorem in higher dimensions11 comments

Terence Tao wrote 1 year ago: Jozsef Solymosi and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “An incidence theorem in highe … more →

Tags: paper, math.AG, incidence geometry, Ham sandwich theorem, Szemeredi-Trotter theorem, Jozsef Solymosi


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