On cap sets and the group-theoretic approach to matrix multiplication

From MaRDI portal
Publication:4645008




Abstract: In 2003, Cohn and Umans described a framework for proving upper bounds on the exponent omega of matrix multiplication by reducing matrix multiplication to group algebra multiplication, and in 2005 Cohn, Kleinberg, Szegedy, and Umans proposed specific conjectures for how to obtain omega=2. In this paper we rule out obtaining omega=2 in this framework from abelian groups of bounded exponent. To do this we bound the size of tricolored sum-free sets in such groups, extending the breakthrough results of Croot, Lev, Pach, Ellenberg, and Gijswijt on cap sets. As a byproduct of our proof, we show that a variant of tensor rank due to Tao gives a quantitative understanding of the notion of unstable tensor from geometric invariant theory.




Cited in
(57)






This page was built for publication: On cap sets and the group-theoretic approach to matrix multiplication

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4645008)