Green–Tao Möbius and nilsequences conjecture

Let s1s\geqslant 1. An ss-step nilmanifold is a quotient G/Γ=(G/Γ,dG/Γ)G/\Gamma=(G/\Gamma,d_{G/\Gamma}) with smooth metric, and an ss-step nilsequence is a sequence of the form (F(gnx))n[N](F(g^n x))_{n\in[N]}. Let μ\mu denote the Möbius function. Green–Tao Möbius and nilsequences conjecture. For every real A>0A>0,

EnNμ(n)F(gnx)A,M,G/Γ,slogAN.\left|\mathbb{E}_{n\leqslant N}\mu(n)F(g^n x)\right|\ll_{A,M,G/\Gamma,s}\log^{-A}N.

Thus the Möbius function has negligible correlation with every bounded ss-step nilsequence of fixed Lipschitz complexity. The conjecture was open in general in the paper; the case s=2s=2 was subsequently settled.

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Ben Green and Terence Tao, “Linear Equations in Primes”, arXiv:math/0606088 (2008).

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