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20072024
most citedThe Mobius function is strongly orthogonal to nilsequences

90 citations · 148 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

math.NT2024

Marton's Conjecture in abelian groups with bounded torsion

W. T. Gowers, Ben Green, Freddie Manners +1

We prove a Freiman--Ruzsa-type theorem with polynomial bounds in arbitrary abelian groups with bounded torsion, thereby proving (in full generality) a conjecture of Marton. Specifi…

math.NT2023

On a conjecture of Marton

W. T. Gowers, Ben Green, Freddie Manners +1

We prove a conjecture of K. Marton, widely known as the polynomial Freiman--Ruzsa conjecture, in characteristic . The argument extends to odd characteristic, with details to fol…

math.CO2013★ 21 cited

Sets of integers with no large sum-free subset

Sean Eberhard, Ben Green, Freddie Manners

Answering a question of P. Erdos from 1965, we show that for every eps>0 there is a set A of n integers with the following property: every subset A' of A with at least (1/3 + eps)n…

math.NT2009★ 37 cited

An equivalence between inverse sumset theorems and inverse conjectures for the U^3 norm

Ben Green, Terence Tao

We establish a correspondence between inverse sumset theorems (which can be viewed as classifications of approximate (abelian) groups) and inverse theorems for the Gowers norms (wh…

math.NT2008★ 90 cited

The Mobius function is strongly orthogonal to nilsequences

Ben Green, Terence Tao

We show that the Mobius function mu(n) is strongly asymptotically orthogonal to any polynomial nilsequence n -> F(g(n)L). Here, G is a simply-connected nilpotent Lie group with a d…

math.CO2007

The distribution of polynomials over finite fields, with applications to the Gowers norms

Ben Green, Terence Tao

In this paper we investigate the uniform distribution properties of polynomials in many variables and bounded degree over a fixed finite field F of prime order. Our main result is…