An approximate structure theorem for small sumsets

Let A and B be randomly chosen s-subsets of the first n integers such that their sumset A+B has size at most Ks. We show that asymptotically almost surely A and B are almost fully contained in arithmetic progressions PA and PB with the same common difference and cardinalities approximately Ks/2. The...

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Authors: Campos, Marcelo, Coulson, Matthew John, Serra Albó, Oriol|||0000-0001-8561-4631, Wötzel, Maximilian|||0000-0001-7591-0998
Format: book part
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repository:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/369273
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/369273
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83823-2_88
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Sequences (Mathematics)
Additive combinatorics
Sumsets
Hypergraph containers
Successions (Matemàtica)
Classificació AMS::11 Number theory::11B Sequences and sets
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Àlgebra::Teoria de nombres
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Summary:Let A and B be randomly chosen s-subsets of the first n integers such that their sumset A+B has size at most Ks. We show that asymptotically almost surely A and B are almost fully contained in arithmetic progressions PA and PB with the same common difference and cardinalities approximately Ks/2. The result holds for s=¿(log3n) and 2=K=o(s/log3n). Our main tool is an asymmetric version of the method of hypergraph containers which was recently used by Campos to prove the result in the special case A=B.