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New sum-product estimates for real and complex numbers (English)
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26 June 2015
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A variation on the sum-product problem seeks to show that a set which is defined by additive and multiplicative operations will always be large. In this paper, the authors obtain new results of this type. In particular, they show that for any finite set \(A\) of positive real numbers, it is true that \[ \left|\left\{\frac{a+b}{c+d}:a,b,c,d\in A\right\}\right|\geq 2|A|^2-1. \] As a consequence of this result, it is also established that \[ |4^{k-1}A^{(k)}|:=|\underbrace{\underbrace{A\cdots A}_{k}+\ldots +A\cdots A}_{4^{k-1}}|\geq |A|^k. \] Later on, it is shown that both of these bounds hold in the case when \(A\) is a finite set of complex numbers, although with smaller multiplicative constants.
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sum-product estimates
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complex numbers
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elementary geometry
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