Bohr sets in sumsets I: Compact groups

Publication date 22 December 2021

Abstract: Let

G

be a compact abelian group and

p h i_{1}, p h i_{2}, p h i_{3}

be continuous endomorphisms on

G

. Under certain natural assumptions on the

p h i_{i}

's, we prove the existence of Bohr sets in the sumset

p h i_{1} (A) + p h i_{2} (A) + p h i_{3} (A)

, where

A

is either a set of positive Haar measure, or comes from a finite partition of

G

. The first result generalizes theorems of Bogolyubov and Bergelson-Ruzsa. As a variant of the second result, we show that for any partition

, there exists an

i

such that

A_{i} - A_{i} + s A_{i}

contains a Bohr set for any

s i n m a t h b b Z s e t m i n u s 0

. The latter is a step toward an open question of Katznelson and Ruzsa.

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