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Stable arithmetic regularity in the finite field model

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Terry, C 

Abstract

The arithmetic regularity lemma for Fpn, proved by Green in 2005, states that given a subset AFpn, there exists a subspace HFpn of bounded codimension such that A is Fourier-uniform with respect to almost all cosets of H. It is known that in general, the growth of the codimension of H is required to be of tower type depending on the degree of uniformity, and that one must allow for a small number of non-uniform cosets. Our main result is that, under a natural model-theoretic assumption of stability, the tower-type bound and non-uniform cosets in the arithmetic regularity lemma are not necessary. Specifically, we prove an arithmetic regularity lemma for k-stable subsets AFpn in which the bound on the codimension of the subspace is a polynomial (depending on k) in the degree of uniformity, and in which there are no non-uniform cosets. This result is an arithmetic analogue of the stable graph regularity lemma proved by Malliaris and Shelah.

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Keywords

math.LO, math.LO, math.CO

Journal Title

Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

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Journal ISSN

0024-6093
1469-2120

Volume Title

51

Publisher

Wiley