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「The van der Corput trick, and equidistribution on nilmanifolds」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

This week I was in Columbus, Ohio, attending a conference on equidistribution on manifolds . I talked about my recent paper with Ben Green on the quantitative behaviour of polynomial sequences in nilmanifolds, which I have blogged about previously . During my talk (and inspired by the immediately preceding talk of Vitaly Bergelson), I stated explicitly for the first time a generalisation of the van der Corput trick which morally underlies our paper, though it is somewhat buri

UPDATE, Feb 2013: It has been pointed out to me by Pavel Zorin that this argument does not fully recover the theorem of Leon Green; to cover all cases, one needs the more complicated van der Corput argument in our paper.

已知结果和反例

The classical van der Corput trick (first used implicitly by Weyl) gives a means to establish the equidistribution of a sequence in a torus (e.g. a sequence in the unit circle for some function P, such as a polynomial.) Recall that such a sequence is said to be equidistributed if one has

as for every continuous function ; an equivalent formulation of equidistribution is that

证明或构造的主线

for every box B in the torus . (The equivalence can be deduced easily from Urysohn’s lemma .) Equidistribution is an important phenomenon to study in ergodic theory and number theory, but also arises in applications such as Monte Carlo integration and pseudorandom number generation.

The fundamental equidistribution theorem of Weyl states that a sequence is equidistributed if and only if the exponential sums

阅读时建议盯住的点

converge to zero for every non-trivial character , i.e. a non-zero continuous homomorphism to the unit cicle. Indeed, it is clear that (2) is a special case of (1), and conversely the general case of (1) can be deduced from (2) and either the Weierstrass approximation theorem or basic Fourier analysis.

The significance of the equidistribution theorem is that it reduces the study of equidistribution to the question of estimating exponential sums, which is a problem in analysis and number theory. For instance, from the equidistribution theorem and the geometric series formula we immediately obtain the following result (stronger than Kronecker’s approximation theorem ):

值得单独记下的条目

• (Horizontal equidistribution) The projected sequence in is equidistributed with respect to .
• (Vertical differenced equidistribution) For every non-zero h, the sequence in the quotiented product space is equidistributed with respect to some measure which is invariant under the action of the torus .

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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