New York Number Theory Seminar
March 06, 2003, 3:30 PM in Room 5417

Speaker:
Jozsef Solymosi (University of California, San Diego)
Title:
On sums and products of complex numbers
Abstract:
Improving earlier results of M.Nathanson and Gy.Elekes, we prove the following bound on sumsets. If $A$ is a finite set of complex numbers, then $$c|A|^{14}<\log^3{|A|}|A+A|^8|AA|^3,$$ whence it's impossible that both $|A+A|$ and $|AA|$ are much smaller than $|A|^{14/11}$.