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Triangles in Cartesian Squares of Quasirandom Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2016

V. BERGELSON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, 231 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus OH 43212, USA (e-mail: vitaly@math.osu.edu, robertson@math.osu.edu)
D. ROBERTSON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, 231 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus OH 43212, USA (e-mail: vitaly@math.osu.edu, robertson@math.osu.edu)
P. ZORIN-KRANICH
Affiliation:
Universität Bonn, Mathematisches Institut, Endenicher Allee 60, D-53115 Bonn, Germany (e-mail: pzorin@uni-bonn.de)

Abstract

We prove that triangular configurations are plentiful in large subsets of Cartesian squares of finite quasirandom groups from classes having the quasirandom ultraproduct property, for example the class of finite simple groups. This is deduced from a strong double recurrence theorem for two commuting measure-preserving actions of a minimally almost periodic (not necessarily amenable or locally compact) group on a (not necessarily separable) probability space.

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