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True complexity of polynomial progressions in finite fields

Part of: Sequences and sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2021

Borys Kuca
Borys Kuca*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, ManchesterM13 9PL, UK([email protected])
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Abstract

The true complexity of a polynomial progression in finite fields corresponds to the smallest-degree Gowers norm that controls the counting operator of the progression over finite fields of large characteristic. We give a conjecture that relates true complexity to algebraic relations between the terms of the progression, and we prove it for a number of progressions, including $x, x+y, x+y^{2}, x+y+y^{2}$ and $x, x+y, x+2y, x+y^{2}$. As a corollary, we prove an asymptotic for the count of certain progressions of complexity 1 in subsets of finite fields. In the process, we obtain an equidistribution result for certain polynomial progressions, analogous to the counting lemma for systems of linear forms proved by Green and Tao.

Keywords

polynomial progressionspolynomial Szemeredi theoremGowers normstrue complexity

MSC classification

Primary: 11B30: Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , August 2021 , pp. 448 - 500
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on Behalf of The Edinburgh Mathematical Society

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