Stanchescu's difference-set lower-bound conjecture in Euclidean space

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Let d2d \geq 2 and let ARdA \subset \mathbb{R}^d be a finite set with affine dimension dim(A)=d\dim(A)=d. Stanchescu's conjecture. Then

AA(2d2+1d1)A(2d24d+3).|A-A| \geq \left(2d-2+\frac{1}{d-1}\right)|A|-(2d^2-4d+3).

This conjecture proposes that Stanchescu's construction from 2d22d-2 parallel arithmetic progressions gives the best possible lower bound for the size of the difference set of a full-dimensional finite subset of Rd\mathbb{R}^d. The bound is known in dimensions d=1d=1, d=2d=2, and d=3d=3, while the higher-dimensional cases were presented as open in the source.

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Primary source

David Conlon and Jeck Lim, “Difference sets in R^d”, arXiv:2110.09053 (2023).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2007.11526.

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