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A statistical approach to covering lemmas

Combinatorics 2016-10-25 v1

Abstract

We discuss a statistical variant of Ruzsa's covering lemma and use it to show that if G is an Abelian group of bounded exponent and A in G has |A+A| < K|A| then the subgroup generated by A has size at most exp(O(K log^22K))|A|, where the constant in the big-O depends on the exponent of the group only.

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@article{arxiv.1610.07096,
  title  = {A statistical approach to covering lemmas},
  author = {Tom Sanders},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07096},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18pp

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