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Polylogarithmic bounds in the nilpotent Freiman theorem

Part of: Additive number theory; partitions Sequences and sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2019

MATTHEW C. H. TOINTON
MATTHEW C. H. TOINTON*
Affiliation:
Pembroke College, Cambridge, CB2 1RF. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We show that if A is a finite K-approximate subgroup of an s-step nilpotent group then there is a finite normal subgroup $H \subset {A^{{K^{{O_s}(1)}}}}$ modulo which ${A^{{O_s}(\mathop {\log }\nolimits^{{O_s}(1)} K)}}$ contains a nilprogression of rank at most ${O_s}(\mathop {\log }\nolimits^{{O_s}(1)} K)$ and size at least $\exp ( - {O_s}(\mathop {\log }\nolimits^{{O_s}(1)} K))|A|$. This partially generalises the close-to-optimal bounds obtained in the abelian case by Sanders, and improves the bounds and simplifies the exposition of an earlier result of the author. Combined with results of Breuillard–Green, Breuillard–Green–Tao, Gill–Helfgott–Pyber–Szabó, and the author, this leads to improved rank bounds in Freiman-type theorems in residually nilpotent groups and certain linear groups of bounded degree.

MSC classification

Primary: 11B30: Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity
Secondary: 11P70: Inverse problems of additive number theory, including sumsets
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 170 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 111 - 127
Copyright
© Cambridge Philosophical Society 2019

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Footnotes

†

The author is the Stokes Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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