Dickson's conjecture for affine sublattices

Let LL be an affine sublattice of Zt\mathbb{Z}^t. For each prime pp, let αp(L)\alpha_p(L) be the local factor defined from the image LpL_p of LL in Zpt\mathbb{Z}_p^t; a local obstruction is a prime pp for which αp(L)=0\alpha_p(L)=0. Dickson's conjecture. If all local obstructions to the Zariski density of prime points in LL are passed, then LPtL\cap\mathcal{P}^t is Zariski dense in LL. This generalizes the prime number theorem in arithmetic progressions from affine lines to affine sublattices and is attributed here to Dickson, in the formulation of Bourgain, Gamburd, and Sarnak. The conjecture is open in general, although the arithmetic-progression case follows from the prime number theorem and the case of arithmetic progressions of arbitrary length is a theorem of Green and Tao.

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Chunlei Liu, “Sublattices of finite index”, arXiv:math/0612439 (2007).

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