In reading the paper of Green and Tao on arithmetic progressions within the primes, I became very interested in the notion of a k-pseudorandom measure discussed in that paper.
A measure here is a function $nu:mathbf{Z}_Ntomathbf{R}$ such that $mathbf{E}nu=1+o(1)$, and it is k-pseudorandom if it obeys the ($k2^{k-1}$,$3k-1$,$k$) (I think) linear forms condition, which basically asserts that it behaves independently with respect to at most $k2^{k-1}$ independent linear forms in $3k-1$ variables, and if it also obeys the correlation condition, which is a weaker form controlling the linear forms $x+h_i$.
They show that a relative Szemeredi's theorem applies to functions bounded by a k-pseudorandom measure, and then construct one that (effectively) bounds the primes.
My question is where else these type of functions have been studied, whether their theory has been expanded, and whether other explicit examples have been found and applied in other situations.
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