The primes contain arbitrarily long polynomial progressions

You need to know: Prime numbers, polynomials, arithmetic progression.

Background: Let {\mathbb Z}[m] denote the set of polynomials in one variable m with integer coefficients.

The Theorem: On 1st October 2006, Terence Tao and Tamar Ziegler submitted to arxiv a paper in which they proved that given any polynomials P_1,\dots , P_k\in {\mathbb Z}[m] with P_1(0)=\dots=P_k(0)=0, there are infinitely many pairs of positive integers x and m such that numbers x+P_1(m),\dots , x+P_k(m) are simultaneously prime.

Short context: The sequence x+P_1(m),\dots , x+P_k(m) is called a polynomial progression. In an earlier work, Green and Tao proved that primes contains arbitrary long arithmetic progressions, which corresponds to the case P_j(m)=(j-1)m, \, j=1,\dots,k. The Theorem generalises this result to polynomial progressions. Moreover, the authors proved that for any \epsilon>0, there are infinitely many pairs (x,m) as in the Theorem with 1 \leq m \leq x^{\epsilon}. In addition, they proved that even any positive proportion of primes contains infinitely many polynomial progressions.

Links: Free arxiv version of the original paper is here, journal version is here.

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