Freiman's small-doubling conjecture for finite subsets of torsion-free groups

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Let AA be a finite subset of a torsion-free group, with ∣A∣≥4|A|\geq 4. A progression is a finite geometric progression in the group. Freiman's conjecture. If

∣A2∣≤3∣A∣−4,|A^2|\leq 3|A|-4,

then AA is covered by a progression of length at most 2∣A∣−32|A|-3. This conjecture extends the (3k−4)(3k-4)-theorem from abelian additive combinatorics to torsion-free groups; the source gives no resolution of it.

References

Primary source

Károly J. Böröczky, Péter P. Pálfy and Oriol Serra, “On the cardinality of sumsets in torsion-free groups”, arXiv:1009.6140 (2010).

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