陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Simons Lecture II: Structure and randomness in ergodic theory and graph theory」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

In this second lecture, I wish to talk about the dichotomy between structure and randomness as it manifests itself in four closely related areas of mathematics:

The two “discrete” (or “finitary”, or “quantitative”) fields of combinatorial number theory and graph theory happen to be related to each other, basically by using the Cayley graph construction; I will give an example of this shortly. The two “continuous” (or “infinitary”, or “qualitative”) fields of ergodic theory and ergodic graph theory are at present only related on the level of analogy and informal intuition, but hopefully some more systematic connections between them wi

已知结果和反例

On the other hand, we have some very rigorous connections between combinatorial number theory and ergodic theory, and also (more recently) between graph theory and ergodic graph theory, basically by the procedure of viewing the infinitary continuous setting as a limit of the finitary discrete setting. These two connections go by the names of the Furstenberg correspondence principle and the graph correspondence principle respectively. These principles allow one to tap the powe

Let me first discuss the connection between combinatorial number theory and graph theory. We can illustrate this connection with two classical results from the former and latter field respectively:

证明或构造的主线

(In fact, both of these theorems can be generalised to say much stronger statements, but 下面会 content ourselves with just these special cases). It is in fact easy to see that Schur’s theorem is deducible from Ramsey’s theorem. Indeed, given a colouring of the positive integers, one can create an infinite coloured complete graph (the Cayley graph associated to that colouring) whose vertex set is the integers , and such that an edge {a,b} with a < b is coloured using the colour

Let us now turn to ergodic theory. The basic object of study here is a measure-preserving system (or probability-preserving system ), which is a probability space (i.e. a set X equipped with a sigma-algebra of measurable sets and a probability measure on that sigma-algebra), together with a shift map , which for simplicity we shall take to be invertible and bi-measurable (so its inverse is also measurable); in particular we have iterated shift maps for any integer n, giving r

阅读时建议盯住的点

In the last lecture we saw that sets of integers could be divided (rather informally) into structured sets, pseudorandom sets, and hybrids between the two. The same is true in ergodic theory – and this time, one can in fact make these notions extremely precise. Let us first start with some examples:

One can classify these systems in precise terms according to how the shift action moves sets E around. On the one hand, we have some well-defined notions which represent structure:

值得单独记下的条目

• Combinatorial number theory , which seeks to find patterns in unstructured dense sets (or colourings) of integers;
• Ergodic theory (or more specifically, multiple recurrence theory), which seeks to find patterns in positive-measure sets under the action of a discrete dynamical system on probability spaces (or more specifically, measure-preserving actions
• Graph theory , or more specifically the portion of this theory concerned with finding patterns in large unstructured dense graphs; and
• Schur’s theorem : If the positive integers are coloured using finitely many colours, then one can find positive integers x, y such that x, y, x+y all have the same colour.
• Ramsey’s theorem : If an infinite complete graph is edge-coloured using finitely many colours, then one can find a triangle all of whose edges have the same colour.
• Hybrid systems, e.g. products of a circle shift and a Bernoulli shift, or extensions of a circle shift by a Bernoulli system, a doubly skew shift (a circle extension of a circle extension of a circle shift), etc.
• Trivial systems are such that for all E and all n.
• Periodic systems are such that for every E, there exists a positive n such that . The two-point shift is an example, as is the circle shift when is rational.

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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