- Series
- Combinatorics Seminar
- Time
- Friday, January 11, 2013 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Thai Hoang Le – U. Texas
- Organizer
- Ernie Croot
The Green-Tao theorem says that the primes contain arithmetic progressions
of arbitrary length. Tao and Ziegler extended it to polynomial
progressions, showing that congurations {a+P_1(d), ..., a+P_k(d)}
exist in the primes, where P_1, ..., P_k are polynomials in
\mathbf{Z}[x] without constant terms (thus the Green-Tao theorem
corresponds to the case where all the P_i are linear). We extend this
result further, showing that we can add the extra requirement that d be
of the form p-1 (or p + 1) where p is prime. This is joint work with
Julia Wolf.