On the Chowla and twin primes conjectures over Fq[T]

Will Sawin, Mark Shusterman

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Abstract

Using geometric methods, we improve on the function field version of the Burgess bound and show that, when restricted to certain special subspaces, the Möbius function over Fq[T] can be mimicked by Dirichlet characters. Combining these, we obtain a level of distribution close to 1 for the Möbius function in arithmetic progressions and resolve Chowla's k-point correlation conjecture with large uniformity in the shifts. Using a function field variant of a result by Fouvry-Michel on exponential sums involving the Möbius function, we obtain a level of distribution beyond 1=2 for irreducible polynomials, and establish the twin prime conjecture in a quantitative form.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)457-506
Number of pages50
JournalAnnals of Mathematics
Volume196
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2022
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mathematics (miscellaneous)

Keywords

  • Level of distribution for irreducible polynomials
  • Parity barrier over function fields
  • Short character sums
  • Twin irreducible polynomials

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