On a theorem of Hegyvári and Hennecart

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Abstract: In this paper, we study growth rate of product of sets in the Heisenberg group over finite fields and the complex numbers. More precisely, we will give improvements and extensions of recent results due to Hegyv'{a}ri and Hennecart (2018).


This paper considers the concept growth in the Heisenberg group, generalising and improving several results of \textit{N. Hegyvári} and \textit{F. Hennecart}, mainly from their paper [Forum Math. 30, No. 1, 227--236 (2018; Zbl 1430.20049)]. We explain one such result in detail, in order to give a flavour of the content of the paper under review. Given a set \(A \subset \mathbb F_q\), let \([A,A,0]\) denote the set \[ [A,A,0]:=\left\{ \begin{pmatrix} 1 & a & 0\\ 0 & 1 & b \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix} : a,b \in A \right\}. \] This paper proves that the product set \([A,A,0] \cdot [A,A,0]\) satisfies the bound \[ |[A,A,0] \cdot [A,A,0]| \gg q \cdot |[A,A,0]| \cdot \frac{|A|^3}{E_+(A)}, \] provided that \(A\) is sufficiently large with respect to \(q\). Here, \(E_+(A)\) denote the additive energy of \(A\). This improves a result from the paper cited above by the factor of \(|A|^3/E_+(A)\), and so it gives an actual improvement unless the additive energy is of the maximum possible order \(|A|^3\). Some other results in this paper include new bounds for growth in the Heisenberg group over \(\mathbb F_q\) in higher dimensions, and for sufficiently small multiplicative subgroups in \(\mathbb F_p\). A new bound for the size of \(|[A,A,0] \cdot [A,A,0]|\) when \(A \subset \mathbb C\) is also given.











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