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Developing an idea of M. Gromov, we study the intersection formula for random subsets with density. The \textit{density} of a subset $A$ in a finite set $E$ is defined by $dens A := \log_{|E|}(|A|)$. The aim of this article is to give a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Tsung-Hsuan Tsai

This paper addresses the correspondence between linear inequalities of Shannon entropy and differential entropy for sums of independent group-valued random variables. We show that any balanced (with the sum of coefficients being zero)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Yihong Wu

We show that a finite set of integers $A \subseteq \mathbb{Z}$ with $|A+A| \le K |A|$ contains a large piece $X \subseteq A$ with Fre\u{i}man dimension $O(\log K)$, where large means $|A|/|X| \ll \exp(O(\log^2 K))$. This can be thought of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Freddie Manners

If $A$ and $B$ are two bounded sets of reals, Ruzsa proved a precise lower bound of the measure of the sumset $A+B$ involving the ratio $\lambda(A)/\lambda(B)$. De Roton established a structural result about the critical sets of this lower…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Robin Riblet

Entropies associated with spatial subsystems in conventional local quantum field theories are typically divergent when the spatial regions have boundaries. However, in certain linear combinations of the entropies for various subsystems,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Mark Van Raamsdonk

We recognise that an entropy inequality akin to the main intermediate goal of recent works (Gowers, Green, Manners, Tao [3],[2]) regarding a conjecture of Marton provides a black box from which we can also through a short deduction recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Thomas Karam

We prove inverse theorems for the size of sumsets and the $L^q$ norms of convolutions in the discretized setting, extending to arbitrary dimension an earlier result of the author in the line. These results have applications to the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Pablo Shmerkin

We prove that any finite abelian group $G$ contains a collection of not too many subsets with a special structure, so that for every subset $A$ of $G$ with a small doubling, there is a member $F$ of the collection that is fully contained in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Noga Alon , Huy Tuan Pham

The Minkowski sum of two subsets $A$ and $B$ of a finite abelian group $G$ is defined as all pairwise sums of elements of $A$ and $B$: $A + B = \{ a + b : a \in A, b \in B \}$. The largest size of a $(k, \ell)$-sum-free set in $G$ has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Rachel Zhang

We study the number of $k$-element sets $A \subset \{1,\ldots,N\}$ with $|A + A| \leq K|A|$ for some (fixed) $K > 0$. Improving results of the first author and of Alon, Balogh, Samotij and the second author, we determine this number up to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Ben Green , Robert Morris

Motivated by the Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa (PFR) Conjecture, we develop a theory of locality in sumsets, with applications to John-type approximation and sets with small doubling. First we show that if $A \subset \mathbb{Z}$ with $|A+A| \le…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Peter van Hintum , Peter Keevash

In this note, the following basic question is explored: in a cyclic group, how are the Shannon entropies of the sum and difference of i.i.d. random variables related to each other? For the integer group, we show that they can differ by any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Emmanuel Abbe , Jiange Li , Mokshay Madiman

In this paper we remark that Shannon entropy can be expressed as a function of the self-information (i.e. the logarithm) and the inverse of the Lambert $W$ function. It means that we consider that Shannon entropy has the trace form: $-k…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-05 Laurent Truffet

We show that every set $A$ of natural numbers with positive upper density can be shifted to contain the restricted sumset $\{b_1 + b_2 : b_1, b_2\in B \text{ and } b_1 \neq b_2 \}$ for some infinite set $B \subset A$.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Bryna Kra , Joel Moreira , Florian K. Richter , Donald Robertson

We answer two questions of Kra, Moreira, Richter and Robertson regarding the existence of infinite sumsets of the form $B + C$ in dense and sparse sets of integers and the relation of sumsets to sets of recurrence. We then further…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Luke Hetzel

We present a new class of estimators of Shannon entropy for severely undersampled discrete distributions. It is based on a generalization of an estimator proposed by T. Schuermann, which itself is a generalization of an estimator proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Peter Grassberger

Let $A = \{0 = a_0 < a_1 < \cdots < a_{\ell + 1} = b\}$ be a finite set of non-negative integers. We prove that the sumset $NA$ has a certain easily-described structure, provided that $N \geqslant b-\ell$, as recently conjectured by Shakan…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Andrew Granville , Aled Walker

We study an entropy measure for quantum systems that generalizes the von Neumann entropy as well as its classical counterpart, the Gibbs or Shannon entropy. The entropy measure is based on hypothesis testing and has an elegant formulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 F. Dupuis , L. Kraemer , P. Faist , J. M. Renes , R. Renner

It was recently noted that the entanglement entropy for a subsystem of a chaotic eigenstate exhibits an enhanced correction when the subsystem approaches a phase transition at half the total system size. This enhanced correction was derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-02 Sean McBride , Fernando Iniguez

We develop the Pl\"unnecke-Ruzsa and Balog-Szemer\'edi-Gowers theory of sum set estimates in the non-commutative setting, with discrete, continuous, and metric entropy formulations of these estimates. We also develop a Freiman-type inverse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Terence Tao