Admissibility characterization for pair large intersections

Let GG be a countable discrete abelian group, and let φ,ψ:GG\varphi,\psi:G\to G be homomorphisms such that

{gG:φ(g)=ψ(g)}\{g\in G:\varphi(g)=\psi(g)\}

has infinite index in GG. A pair is admissible when it satisfies the paper's admissibility condition, and it has the large intersections property when its associated triple intersections are uniformly large on a syndetic subset of GG.

Pair characterization conjecture. The pair {φ,ψ}\{\varphi,\psi\} has the large intersections property if and only if it is admissible.

This conjecture gives evidence that admissibility is essential: the paper explains that non-admissible families provide failures of large intersections, whereas the admissible case is supported by the characteristic-factor and ergodic arguments developed earlier.

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Ethan Ackelsberg, Vitaly Bergelson and Andrew Best, “Multiple recurrence and large intersections for abelian group actions”, arXiv:2101.02811 (2021).

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