Abstract
This is an erratum to the paper The quantitative behaviour of polynomial orbits on nilmanifolds by the authors, published as Ann. of Math. (2) $\bf{175}$ (2012), no. 2, 465–540. The proof of Theorem 8.6 of that paper, which claims a distribution result for multiparameter polynomial sequences on nilmanifolds, was incorrect. We provide two fixes for this issue here. First, we deduce the “equal sides” case $N_1 = …= N_t = N$ of this result from the 1-parameter results in the paper. This is the same basic mode of argument we attempted originally, though the details are different. The equal sides case is the only one required in applications such as the proof of the inverse conjectures for the Gowers norms due to the authors and Ziegler. To remove the equal sides condition one must rerun the entire argument of our paper in the context of multiparameter polynomial sequences $g : \mathbb{Z}^t \rightarrow G$ rather than 1-parameter sequences $g : \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow G$ as is currently done: a more detailed sketch of how this may be done is available online.
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[green-tao-nilratner]
B. Green and T. Tao, "The quantitative behaviour of polynomial orbits on nilmanifolds," Ann. of Math., vol. 175, iss. 2, pp. 465-540, 2012.
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[fks]
D. Fisher, B. Kalinin, and R. Spatzier, "Global rigidity of higher rank Anosov actions on tori and nilmanifolds," J. Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 26, iss. 1, pp. 167-198, 2013.
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TITLE = {Global rigidity of higher rank {A}nosov actions on tori and nilmanifolds},
NOTE = {with an appendix by James F. Davis},
JOURNAL = {J. Amer. Math. Soc.},
FJOURNAL = {Journal of the American Mathematical Society},
VOLUME = {26},
YEAR = {2013},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {167--198},
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DOI = {10.1090/S0894-0347-2012-00751-6},
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[gorodnik-spatzier] A. Gorodnik and R. Spatzier, Exponential Mixing of Nilmanifold Automorphisms.
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author={A.~Gorodnik and R.~Spatzier},
TITLE={Exponential Mixing of Nilmanifold Automorphisms},
NOTE={to appear in \emph{J. Anal. Math.}},
ARXIV = {1210.2271},
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[gorodnik-spatzier2] A. Gorodnik and R. Spatzier, Mixing properties of commuting nilmanifold automorphisms.
@misc{gorodnik-spatzier2,
author={A.~Gorodnik and R.~Spatzier},
TITLE={Mixing properties of commuting nilmanifold automorphisms},
ARXIV={1211.0987},
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[arithmetic-regularity]
B. Green and T. Tao, "An arithmetic regularity lemma, an associated counting lemma, and applications," in An Irregular Mind, Budapest: János Bolyai Math. Soc., 2010, vol. 21, pp. 261-334.
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VOLUME = {21},
PAGES = {261--334},
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MRREVIEWER = {David Conlon},
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DOI = {10.1007/978-3-642-14444-8_7},
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[gtz]
B. Green, T. Tao, and T. Ziegler, "An inverse theorem for the Gowers $U^{s+1}[N]$-norm," Ann. of Math., vol. 176, iss. 2, pp. 1231-1372, 2012.
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TITLE = {An inverse theorem for the {G}owers {$U\sp {s+1}[N]$}-norm},
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[more-detailed] B. Green and T. Tao, On the quantitative distribution of polynomial nilsequences — erratum.
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author={Green, Ben and Tao, Terence},
TITLE={On the quantitative distribution of polynomial nilsequences -- erratum},
NOTE={not for publication},
SORTYEAR={2015},
ARXIV={1311.6170},
}