On the product sets of rational numbers (Q2362408)

For a positive integer \(Q\) let \(A\) and \(B\) sets which contain rational numbers whith positive numerator and denominator bounded above by \(Q\). In this paper the author improve on a result of \textit{J. Bourgain} et al. [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2008, Article ID rnn090, 29 p. (2008; Zbl 1232.11003)] about the cardinality of the product set \(AB\). Namely, he prove that \[ |AB| \geq |A|\cdot |B|\text{exp}\left \{(-C+o(1))\frac{\log Q}{\log \log Q} \right \}, \] whenever \(Q \rightarrow \infty\), where one can take \(C = 8\log 2\) as \(C\). On the other hand he gives an upper estimation to the multiplicative energy \(E(A,B) = |\{a_{1}b_{1} = a_{2}b_{2}: a_{1}, a_{2} \in A, b_{1}, b_{2} \in B\}|\) by proving that there is an absolute constant \(C > 0\) such that \[ E(A, B) \leq |A|\cdot |B|\text{exp}\left \{(C+o(1))\frac{\log Q}{\log \log Q} \right \}, \] whenever \(Q \rightarrow \infty\), where one can take \(C = 8\log 2\) as \(C\). The probabilistic method plays a crucial role in the proof.