The approximate polynomial growth conjecture for locally compact groups

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Let GG be a locally compact group, let A⊂GA\subset G be a compact neighborhood, and let μ\mu be Haar measure on GG. For n⩾1n\geqslant 1, write AnA^n for the nn-fold product set of AA. Approximate polynomial growth conjecture. If

μ(An)⩽ndμ(A)\mu(A^n)\leqslant n^d\mu(A)

for all n⩾dlog⁡dn\geqslant d\log d, then AA is contained in a d1+o(1)d^{1+o(1)}-dimensional ball BB of some continuous translation-invariant pseudometric, with

μ(B)⩽exp⁡(d1+o(1))μ(A).\mu(B)\leqslant \exp(d^{1+o(1)})\mu(A).

The source proposes this as a non-abelian analogue of its weak Freiman theorem, explicitly describing it as a conjectural direction and giving no resolution.

References

Primary source

Tom Sanders, “A Freiman-type theorem for locally compact abelian groups”, arXiv:0710.2545 (2010).

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