On the number of sets with a given doubling constant
Combinatorics
2019-05-06 v3 Number Theory
Abstract
We study the number of -element subsets of a given abelian group , such that . Proving a conjecture of Alon, Balogh, Morris and Samotij, and improving a result of Green and Morris, who proved the conjecture for fixed, we provide an upper bound on the number of such sets which is tight up to a factor of when and . We also provide a generalization of this result to arbitrary abelian groups which is tight up to a factor of in many cases. The main tool used in the proof is the asymmetric container lemma, introduced recently by Morris, Samotij and Saxton.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1811.05793,
title = {On the number of sets with a given doubling constant},
author = {Marcelo Soares Campos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05793},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
11 pages + 10 page appendix. Minor mistakes and typos from the first version were corrected. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1806.03706 by other authors