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Measure growth in compact semisimple Lie groups and the Kemperman Inverse Problem

Group Theory 2023-03-29 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Suppose GG is a compact semisimple Lie group, μ\mu is the normalized Haar measure on GG, and A,A2GA, A^2 \subseteq G are measurable. We show that μ(A2)min{1,2μ(A)+ημ(A)(12μ(A))}\mu(A^2)\geq \min\{1, 2\mu(A)+\eta\mu(A)(1-2\mu(A))\} with the absolute constant η>0\eta>0 (independent from the choice of GG) quantitatively determined. We also show a more general result for connected compact groups without a toric quotient and resolve the Kemperman Inverse Problem from 1964.

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@article{arxiv.2303.15628,
  title  = {Measure growth in compact semisimple Lie groups and the Kemperman Inverse Problem},
  author = {Yifan Jing and Chieu-Minh Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.15628},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

50 pages; the paper subsumes the compact case of arxiv:2006.01824. The proof now is simplified and effective, the smallness assumption in the main theorem is removed, and the model theoretical arguments are no longer needed. For the non-compact case, a more straightforward proof using the non-abelian Brunn-Minkowski inequality was obtained by An, Zhang, and the authors in arXiv:2111.05236