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「Mixing for progressions in non-abelian groups」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

I’ve just uploaded to the arXiv my paper “ Mixing for progressions in non-abelian groups “, submitted to Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (which, along with sister publication Forum of Mathematics, Pi , has just opened up its online submission system ). This paper is loosely related in subject topic to my two previous papers on polynomial expansion and on recurrence in quasirandom groups (with Vitaly Bergelson), although the methods here are rather different from those in those tw

For non-quasirandom groups, such mixing properties can certainly fail. For instance, if is the cyclic group (which is abelian and thus highly non-quasirandom) with the additive group operation, and for some small but fixed , then in the limit , but the number of pairs with is rather than . The problem here is that the identity ensures that if and both lie in , then has a highly elevated likelihood of also falling in . One can view as the preimage of a small ball under the one

已知结果和反例

However, by definition, quasirandom groups do not have low-dimensional representations, and Gowers asked whether mixing for could hold for quasirandom groups. I do not know if this is the case for arbitrary quasirandom groups, but I was able to settle the question for a specific class of quasirandom groups, namely the special linear groups over a finite field in the regime where the dimension is bounded (but is at least two) and is large. Indeed, for such groups I can obtain

I was also able to obtain a partial result for the length four progression in the simpler two-dimensional case , but I had to make the unusual restriction that the group element was hyperbolic in the sense that it was diagonalisable over the finite field (as opposed to diagonalisable over the algebraic closure of that field); this amounts to the discriminant of the matrix being a quadratic residue, and this holds for approximately half of the elements of . The result is then

证明或构造的主线

For the length three argument, the main tools used are the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, the quasirandomness of , and some algebraic geometry to ensure that a certain family of probability measures on that are defined algebraically are approximately uniformly distributed. The length four argument is significantly more difficult and relies on a rather ad hoc argument involving, among other things, expander properties related to the work of Bourgain and Gamburd , and also a “twist

I give some details of these arguments below the fold.

阅读时建议盯住的点

One can view the mixing property of length three progressions as an assertion about the unbiased nature of sums of the form

for various bounded functions . (To obtain the stronger statement in which is also restricted to some set , one would throw in an additional function , but let us ignore that generalisation here for sake of simplicity.) Roughly speaking, mixing means that the sum (1) should be small if at least one of the have small mean.

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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