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An elementary additive doubling inequality

Combinatorics 2011-07-26 v2

Abstract

We prove an elementary additive combinatorics inequality, which says that if AA is a subset of an Abelian group, which has, in some strong sense, large doubling, then the difference set A-A has a large subset, which has small doubling.

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@article{arxiv.1107.4494,
  title  = {An elementary additive doubling inequality},
  author = {Misha Rudnev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4494},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Withdrawn (permanently!) thanks to B. Bukh, and T. Tao who both pointed out that the trivial case of the zero difference makes the fourth moment a-priori quite large. Thus the condition, under which the "theorem" was claimed (referred to in the Abstract as "if $A$ is a subset of an Abelian group, which has, in some strong sense, large doubling") is never satisfied

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