Multiple Recurrence in Quasirandom Groups

We establish a new mixing theorem for quasirandom groups (finite groups with no low-dimensional unitary representations) G which, informally speaking, asserts that if g, x are drawn uniformly at random from G, then the quadruple (g, x, gx, xg) behaves like a random tuple in G ⁴, subject to the obvious constraint that gx and xg are conjugate to each other. The proof is non-elementary, proceeding by first using an ultraproduct construction to replace the finitary claim on quasirandom groups with an infinitary analogue concerning a limiting group object that we call an ultra quasirandom group, and then using the machinery of idempotent ultrafilters to establish the required mixing property for such groups. Some simpler recurrence theorems (involving tuples such as (x, gx, xg)) are also presented, as well as some further discussion of specific examples of ultra quasirandom groups.