A note on Pollard's Theorem

Details A note on Pollard's Theorem A note on Pollard's Theorem

2008-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/0804.2593v1

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Number Theory

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Let $A,B$ be nonempty subsets of a an abelian group $G$. Let $N_i(A,B)$ denote the set of elements of $G$ having $i$ distinct decompositions as a product of an element of $A$ and an element of $B$. We prove that $$ \sum _{1\le i \le t} |N_i (A,B)|\ge t(|A|+|B|- t-\alpha+1+w)-w, $$ where $\alpha $ is the largest size of a coset contained in $AB$ and $w=\min (\alpha-1,1)$, with a strict inequality if $\alpha\ge 3$ and $t\ge 2$, or if $\alpha\ge 2$ and $t= 2$. This result is a local extension of results by Pollard and Green--Ruzsa and extends also for $t>2$ a recent result of Grynkiewicz, conjectured by Dicks--Ivanov (for non necessarily abelian groups) in connection to the famous Hanna Neumann problem in Group Theory.

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