Members Seminar

Linear Equations in Primes and Nilpotent Groups
Series: 
Members Seminar
Tamar Ziegler
Technion--Israel Institute of Technology
Date & Time: 
Mon, 01/30/2012 - 14:00 - 15:00
Location: 
S-101

A classical theorem of Dirichlet establishes the existence of infinitely many primes in arithmetic progressions, so long as there are no local obstructions. In 2006 Green and Tao set up a program for proving a vast generalization of this theorem. They conjectured a relation between the existence of linear patterns in primes and dynamics on nilmanifolds. In recent joint work with Green and Tao we completed the final step of this program.