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The Green-Tao theorem: an exposition

  • David Conlon

    University of Oxford, UK

  • Jacob Fox

    Stanford University, USA

  • Yufei Zhao

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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Abstract

The celebrated Green-Tao theorem states that the prime numbers contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. We give an exposition of the proof, incorporating several simplifications that have been discovered since the original paper.

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David Conlon, Jacob Fox, Yufei Zhao, The Green-Tao theorem: an exposition. EMS Surv. Math. Sci. 1 (2014), no. 2, pp. 249–282

DOI 10.4171/EMSS/6