Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2009
We use the Freiman theorem in arithmetic combinatorics to show that if the Fourier transform of certain measures satisfies sufficiently bad estimates, then the support of the measure possesses an additive structure. The result is then discussed in light of the Falconer distance problem.
This work was partly supported by the grant DMS02-45369 from the National Science Foundation, the National Science Foundation Focused Research Grant DMS04-56306, and the EPSRC grant GR/S13682/01.