The multiplicative bounded-product conjecture

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Let A⊂NA\subset\mathbb{N} have positive density with respect to a multiplicative Følner sequence. For an infinite set B⊂NB\subset\mathbb{N} and t∈Nt\in\mathbb{N}, consider

{b1b2t:b1,b2∈B, b1≠b2}.\{b_1b_2t:b_1,b_2\in B,\ b_1\ne b_2\}.

Multiplicative bounded-product conjecture. There exist an infinite set B⊂NB\subset\mathbb{N} and t∈Nt\in\mathbb{N} such that

{b1b2t:b1,b2∈B, b1≠b2}⊂A.\{b_1b_2t:b_1,b_2\in B,\ b_1\ne b_2\}\subset A.

This is presented as the multiplicative analogue of the positive-density two-fold sumset problem. The source explicitly says it is open.

References

Primary source

Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian K. Richter and Donald Robertson, “Problems on infinite sumset configurations in the integers and beyond”, arXiv:2311.06197 (2025).

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