Generalising the Hardy-Littlewood method for primes
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The Hardy-Littlewood method is a well-known technique in analytic number theory. Among its spectacular applications are Vinogradov’s 1937 result that every sufficiently large odd number is a sum of three primes, and a related result of Chowla and Van der Corput giving an asymptotic for the number of 3-term progressions of primes, all less than N . This article surveys recent developments of the author and T. Tao, in which the Hardy-Littlewood method has been generalised to obtain, for example, an asymptotic for the number of 4-term arithmetic progressions of primes less than N . Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 11B25
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تاریخ انتشار 2007