Difference-product and difference-quotient sum-product conjectures

Let ARA\subset\mathbb{R} be finite, and define

AA={ab:a,bA},AA1={ab1:a,bA},A-A=\{a-b:a,b\in A\},\qquad AA^{-1}=\{ab^{-1}:a,b\in A\},

with the convention 01=00^{-1}=0. Also let AA={ab:a,bA}AA=\{ab:a,b\in A\}. Difference-product and difference-quotient conjecture. For every fixed δ1\delta\leq 1, one has both

AA+AA1A1+δ,|A-A|+|AA^{-1}|\gtrsim |A|^{1+\delta},

and

AA+AAA1+δ.|A-A|+|AA|\gtrsim |A|^{1+\delta}.

These are sum-product-type expansion claims involving differences together with quotients or products. The candidate is presented without a name or resolution evidence, so its status remains open.

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Primary source

George Shakan, “On higher energy decompositions and the sum-product phenomenon”, arXiv:1803.04637 (2018).

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