The Green-Tao theorem for affine curves over F_q

Green and Tao famously proved in a 2008 paper that there are arithmetic progressions of prime numbers of arbitrary lengths. Soon after, analogous statements were proved by Tao for the ring of Gaussian integers and by Le for the polynomial rings over finite fields. In 2020 this was extented to orders of arbitrary number fields by Kai-Mimura-Munemasa-Seki-Yoshino. We settle the case of the coordinate rings of affine curves over finite fields. The main contribution of this paper is subtle choice of a polynomial subring of the given ring which plays the role of $\mathbb Z$ in the number field case. This is enabled by the Riemann-Roch formula.