Growth Estimates in Positive Characteristic via Collisions

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Abstract: Let F be a field of characteristic p>2 and AsubsetF have sufficiently small cardinality in terms of p. We improve the state of the art of a variety of sum-product type inequalities. In particular, we prove that |AA|^2|A+A|^3 gg |A|^6,qquad |A(A+A)|gg |A|^{3/2}. We also prove several two-variable extractor estimates: displaystyle|A(A+1)|gg|A|9/8, |A+A^2|gg |A|^{11/10},; |A+A^3|gg |A|^{29/28}, ; |A+1/A|gg |A|^{31/30}. Besides, we address questions of cardinalities |A+A| vs |f(A)+f(A)|, for a polynomial f, where we establish the inequalities max(|A+A|,, |A^2+A^2|)gg |A|^{8/7}, ;; max(|A-A|,, |A^3+A^3|)gg |A|^{17/16}. Szemer'edi-Trotter type implications of the arithmetic estimates in question are that a Cartesian product point set P=AimesB in F2, of n elements, with |B|leq|A|<p2/3 makes O(n3/4m2/3+m+n) incidences with any set of m lines. In particular, when |A|=|B|, there are lln9/4 collinear triples of points in P, ggn3/2 distinct lines between pairs of its points, in ggn3/4 distinct directions. Besides, P=AimesA determines ggn9/16 distinct pair-wise distances. These estimates are obtained on the basis of a new plane geometry interpretation of the incidence theorem between points and planes in three dimensions, which we call collisions of images.












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