An IP-star recurrence conjecture for semigroup homomorphisms

Let S=(S,)S=(S,\cdot) and R=(R,)R=(R,\cdot) be semigroups, with RR admitting a left invariant mean, and let ARA\subseteq R be piecewise syndetic. For commuting homomorphisms φ1,,φn:SR\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_n:S\to R, let D(t1A;φ1,,φn)D(t^{-1}A;\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_n) denote the set defined in the paper, and let an IPr\mathbf{IP}_r^* set in SS be a set meeting every rr-term finite-products set. The conjecture. For every nn, there exist tRt\in R and rNr\in\mathbb{N} such that

D(t1A;φ1,,φn)D(t^{-1}A;\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_n)

is IPr\mathbf{IP}_r^* in SS for all commuting homomorphisms φ1,,φn\varphi_1,\dots,\varphi_n from SS to RR. The conjecture seeks a noncommutative strengthening of the paper's recurrence results; the source notes that it would follow if a preceding theorem extended to arbitrary semigroups, but gives no proof or resolution.

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T. Y. Tao and Neil N. Y. Yang, “Finding Product and Sum Patterns in non-commutative settings”, arXiv:2404.19650 (2024).

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