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Hausdorff dimension bounds for the ABC sum-product problem

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2022-01-04 v1 Combinatorics Metric Geometry

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to complete the proof of the following result. Let 0<βα<10 < \beta \leq \alpha < 1 and κ>0\kappa > 0. Then, there exists η>0\eta > 0 such that whenever A,BRA,B \subset \mathbb{R} are Borel sets with dimHA=α\dim_{\mathrm{H}} A = \alpha and dimHB=β\dim_{\mathrm{H}} B = \beta, then dimH{cR:dimH(A+cB)α+η}αβ1β+κ.\dim_{\mathrm{H}} \{c \in \mathbb{R} : \dim_{\mathrm{H}} (A + cB) \leq \alpha + \eta\} \leq \tfrac{\alpha - \beta}{1 - \beta} + \kappa. This extends a result of Bourgain from 2010, which contained the case α=β\alpha = \beta. This paper is a sequel to the author's previous work from 2021 which, roughly speaking, established the same result with dimH(A+cB)\dim_{\mathrm{H}} (A + cB) replaced by dimB(A+cB)\dim_{\mathrm{B}}(A + cB), the box dimension of A+cBA + cB. It turns out that, at the level of δ\delta-discretised statements, the superficially weaker box dimension result formally implies the Hausdorff dimension result.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00564,
  title  = {Hausdorff dimension bounds for the ABC sum-product problem},
  author = {Tuomas Orponen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00564},
  year   = {2022}
}

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