We establish the existence of infinitely many$polynomial$progressions in the primes; more precisely, given any integer-valued polynomials$P$_{1}, …,$P$_{$k$}∈$Z$[$m$] in one unknown$m$with$P$_{1}(0) = … =$P$_{$k$}(0) = 0, and given any$ε$> 0, we show that there are infinitely many integers$x$and$m$, with $1 \leqslant m \leqslant x^\varepsilon$ , such that$x$+$P$_{1}($m$), …,$x$+$P$_{$k$}($m$) are simultaneously prime. The arguments are based on those in [18], which treated the linear case$P$_{$j$}= ($j$− 1)$m$and$ε$= 1; the main new features are a localization of the shift parameters (and the attendant Gowers norm objects) to both coarse and fine scales, the use of PET induction to linearize the polynomial averaging, and some elementary estimates for the number of points over finite fields in certain algebraic varieties.

We study the energy-critical focusing non-linear wave equation, with data in the energy space, in dimensions 3, 4 and 5. We prove that for Cauchy data of energy smaller than the one of the static solution$W$which gives the best constant in the Sobolev embedding, the following alternative holds. If the initial data has smaller norm in the homogeneous Sobolev space$H$^{1}than the one of$W$, then we have global well-posedness and scattering. If the norm is larger than the one of$W$, then we have break-down in finite time.

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We give a concrete and surprisingly simple characterization of compact sets $ K \subset \mathbb{R}^{{2 \times 2}} $ for which families of approximate solutions to the inclusion problem$Du$∈$K$are compact. In particular our condition is algebraic and can be tested algorithmically. We also prove that the quasiconvex hull of compact sets of 2 × 2 matrices can be localized. This is false for compact sets in higher dimensions in general.