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Marton's Conjecture in abelian groups with bounded torsion

Number Theory 2024-05-22 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove a Freiman--Ruzsa-type theorem with polynomial bounds in arbitrary abelian groups with bounded torsion, thereby proving (in full generality) a conjecture of Marton. Specifically, let GG be an abelian group of torsion mm (meaning mg=0mg=0 for all gGg \in G) and suppose that AA is a non-empty subset of GG with A+AKA|A+A| \leq K|A|. Then AA can be covered by at most (2K)O(m3)(2K)^{O(m^3)} translates of a subgroup of HGH \leq G of cardinality at most A|A|. The argument is a variant of that used in the case G=F2nG = \mathbf{F}_2^n in a recent paper of the authors.

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@article{arxiv.2404.02244,
  title  = {Marton's Conjecture in abelian groups with bounded torsion},
  author = {W. T. Gowers and Ben Green and Freddie Manners and Terence Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.02244},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

33 pages, to be submitted; v2 corrects some minor issues pointed out by readers of v1