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「Marker lecture IV: “Sieving for almost primes and expanders”」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 final lecture in the Marker lecture series , I discuss the recent work of Bourgain, Gamburd, and Sarnak on how arithmetic combinatorics and expander graphs were used to sieve for almost primes in various algebraic sets .

In previous lectures, we considered the problem of detecting tuples of primes in various linear or convex sets; in particular, we considered the size of sets of the form , where is the set of primes, and V is some affine subspace of . (For instance, the twin prime conjecture would correspond to the case when k=2 and , while the Green-Tao theorem would correspond to the case . We refer to elements of as prime points . The prime tuples conjecture implies the following qualitati

已知结果和反例

Qualitative prime tuples conjecture. Let V be an affine subspace of . Suppose that

Then affinely spans all of V. (In particular, V contains at least one prime point.)

证明或构造的主线

Both of the hypotheses in this conjecture are easily verified for any given V, the first by (integer) linear programming and the second by modular arithmetic. This conjecture would imply several other results and conjectures in number theory, including the twin prime conjecture and the Green-Tao theorem. Needless to say, it remains open in general (though the results mentioned in the previous lecture give partial results in the case when V is at least two-dimensional and non-

Now we attempt to generalise the above conjecture to the setting in which V is an algebraic variety rather than an affine subspace. (This would cover some famous open problems in number theory, for instance the Landau problem that asks whether there are infinitely many primes of the form .) The notion of a set affinely spanning V is then naturally replaced by the notion of a set being Zariski dense in V, which means that the set is not contained in any strictly smaller subvar

阅读时建议盯住的点

Since arbitrary algebraic varieties are far too general to have any hope of a reasonable theory, one should look for prime points in much more special sets. An important class here is that of an orbit in , where b is some vector in and is some finitely generated subgroup of . (One can also consider the slightly more general set of images under a polynomial map, but for simplicity let us stick to just orbits.) Of course one should take b to be primitive (not a multiple of any

The orbit will be Zariski dense in some algebraic variety V, and is clearly a collection of integer points (though it may not cover all of ). Assuming no local obstructions at infinity or at q (which means that and are Zariski dense in V), one could then conjecture that is also Zariski dense in V (which, if V is infinite, would in particular imply that the orbit contains infinitely many prime points).

值得单独记下的条目

• (No obstructions at infinity) For any N, affinely spans all of V, where . (In particular, is non-empty.)
• (No obstructions at q) For any , affinely spans all of V, where . (In particular, is non-empty.)

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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