Polynomial growth of sumsets in abelian semigroups

Nathanson, Melvyn B.; Ruzsa, Imre Z.

Nathanson, Melvyn B. ; Ruzsa, Imre Z.

Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Tome 14 (2002) no. 2, pp. 553-560.

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Soit $S$ un semi-groupe abélien et $A$ un sous-ensemble fini de $S$ . On désigne par $h A$ l’ensemble de toutes les sommes de $h$ éléments de $A$ , et par $| h A |$ son cardinal. On montre, par des arguments élémentaires de comptage de points dans les réseaux, qu’il existe un polynôme $p (t)$ tel que pour tout entier $h$ assez grand $| h A | = p (h)$ . Plus généralement, on étend ce résultat aux ensembles $h_{1} A_{1} \times \dots + h_{r} A_{r}$ en obtenant la croissance polynomiale du cardinal en termes des variables $h_{1}, h_{2}, \dots, h_{r}$ .

Let $S$ be an abelian semigroup, and $A$ a finite subset of $S$ . The sumset $h A$ consists of all sums of $h$ elements of $A$ , with repetitions allowed. Let $| h A |$ denote the cardinality of $h A$ . Elementary lattice point arguments are used to prove that an arbitrary abelian semigroup has polynomial growth, that is, there exists a polynomial $p (t)$ such that $| h A | = p (h)$ for all sufficiently large $h$ . Lattice point counting is also used to prove that sumsets of the form $h_{1} A_{1} + \dots + h_{r} A_{r}$ have multivariate polynomial growth.

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Nathanson, Melvyn B.; Ruzsa, Imre Z. Polynomial growth of sumsets in abelian semigroups. Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Tome 14 (2002) no. 2, pp. 553-560. http://www.numdam.org/item/JTNB_2002__14_2_553_0/

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