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most citedNotes on nilspaces: algebraic aspects

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math.GR2026

The Jamneshan-Tao conjecture for finite abelian groups of bounded rank

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

We confirm the Jamneshan-Tao conjecture for finite abelian groups of rank at most a fixed integer (i.e. finite abelian groups generated by at most elements), by proving an…

math.DS2025

An inverse theorem for all finite abelian groups via nilmanifolds

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

We prove a first inverse theorem for Gowers norms on all finite abelian groups that uses only nilmanifolds (rather than possibly more general nilspaces). This makes progress toward…

math.CO2025

Spectral algorithms in higher-order Fourier analysis

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

Our goal is to provide simple and practical algorithms in higher-order Fourier analysis which are based on spectral decompositions of operators. We propose a general framework for…

math.CO2024

On sets with missing differences in compact abelian groups

Pablo Candela, Fernando Chamizo, Antonio Córdoba

A much-studied problem posed by Motzkin asks to determine, given a finite set of integers, the so-called Motzkin density for , i.e., the supremum of upper densities of sets…

math.CO2023

On the inverse theorem for Gowers norms in abelian groups of bounded torsion

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

In recent work, Jamneshan, Shalom and Tao proved an inverse theorem for the Gowers -norm on finite abelian groups of fixed torsion , where the final correlating harmoni…

math.DS2023

On measure-preserving -systems of order

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

Building on previous work in the nilspace-theoretic approach to the study of Host-Kra factors of measure-preserving systems, we prove that every ergodic -system of…

math.CO2023

Free nilspaces, double-coset nilspaces, and Gowers norms

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

Compact finite-rank nilspaces have become central in the nilspace approach to higher-order Fourier analysis, notably through their role in a general form of the inverse theorem for…

math.PR2022

On -affine-exchangeable probability measures

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

For any standard Borel space , let denote the space of Borel probability measures on . In relation to a difficult problem of Aldous in exchangeability theory…

math.DS2021★ 1 cited

On higher-order Fourier analysis in characteristic

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

In this paper, the nilspace approach to higher-order Fourier analysis is developed in the setting of vector spaces over a prime field , with applications mainly in er…

math.CO2021

A refinement of Cauchy-Schwarz complexity

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

We introduce a notion of complexity for systems of linear forms, called sequential Cauchy-Schwarz complexity, which is parametrized by two positive integers and refines th…

math.CO2020

Coloring graphs by translates in the circle

Pablo Candela, Carlos Catala, Robert Hancock +4

The fractional and circular chromatic numbers are the two most studied non-integral refinements of the chromatic number of a graph. Starting from the definition of a coloring base…

math.CO2019

On sets with small sumset and m-sum-free sets in Z/pZ

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, David J. Grynkiewicz

The conjecture in groups for prime states that if is a nonempty subset of satisfying $2A\neq \mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}…

math.CO2019

Regularity and inverse theorems for uniformity norms on compact abelian groups and nilmanifolds

Pablo Candela, Balázs Szegedy

We prove a general form of the regularity theorem for uniformity norms, and deduce an inverse theorem for these norms which holds for a class of compact nilspaces including all com…

math.DS2018★ 9 cited

On nilspace systems and their morphisms

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Balázs Szegedy

A nilspace system is a generalization of a nilsystem, consisting of a compact nilspace X equipped with a group of nilspace translations acting on X. Nilspace systems appear in diff…

math.CO2018

A step beyond Freiman's theorem for set addition modulo a prime

Pablo Candela, Oriol Serra, Christoph Spiegel

Freiman's 2.4-Theorem states that any set satisfying and can be covered by an arithmetic progression of length at most…

math.DS2018

Nilspace factors for general uniformity seminorms, cubic exchangeability and limits

Pablo Candela, Balázs Szegedy

We study a class of measure-theoretic objects that we call cubic couplings, on which there is a common generalization of the Gowers norms and the Host-Kra seminorms. Our main resul…

math.CO2017

A Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality in compact abelian groups

Pablo Candela, Diego González-Sánchez, Anne de Roton

The Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality is a fundamental tool to control the growth of finite subsets of abelian groups under repeated addition and subtraction. Other tools to handle sumset…

math.CO2017★ 2 cited

On sets with small sumset in the circle

Pablo Candela, Anne de Roton

We prove results on the structure of a subset of the circle group having positive inner Haar measure and doubling constant close to the minimum. These results go toward a continuou…

math.DS2016★ 3 cited

Notes on compact nilspaces

Pablo Candela

These notes form the second part of a detailed account of the theory of nilspaces developed by Camarena and Szegedy. Here we focus on nilspaces equipped with a compact topology tha…

math.CO2016★ 10 cited

Notes on nilspaces: algebraic aspects

Pablo Candela

These notes constitute the first part of a detailed exposition of the theory of nilspaces developed by Camarena and Szegedy. We treat what can be called the algebraic part of the t…

math.CO2015

A continuous model for systems of complexity 2 on simple abelian groups

Pablo Candela, Balázs Szegedy

It is known that if is a sufficiently large prime then for every function there exists a continuous function on the circle su…

math.DS2015

Towers for commuting endomorphisms, and combinatorial applications

Artur Avila, Pablo Candela

We give an elementary proof of a generalization of Rokhlin's lemma for commuting non-invertible measure-preserving transformations, and we present several combinatorial application…

math.CO2014

On linear configurations in subsets of compact abelian groups, and invariant measurable hypergraphs

Pablo Candela, Balázs Szegedy, Lluís Vena

We prove an arithmetic removal result for all compact abelian groups, generalizing a finitary removal result of Král', Serra and the third author. To this end, we consider infinite…

math.CO2014

On the dimension of additive sets

P. Candela, H. A. Helfgott

We study the relations between several notions of dimension for an additive set, some of which are well-known and some of which are more recent, appearing for instance in work of S…