陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「254B, Notes 5: Product theorems, pivot arguments, and the Larsen-Pink non-concentration in」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

In the previous set of notes , we saw that one could derive expansion of Cayley graphs from three ingredients: non-concentration, product theorems, and quasirandomness. Quasirandomness was discussed in Notes 3 . In the current set of notes, we discuss product theorems. Roughly speaking, these theorems assert that in certain circumstances, a finite subset of a group either exhibits expansion (in the sense that , say, is significantly larger than ), or is somehow “close to” or

Theorem 1 (Product theorem in ) Let , let be a finite field, and let be a finite subset of . Let be sufficiently small depending on . Then at least one of the following statements holds:

已知结果和反例

We will prove this theorem (which was proven first in the cases for fields of prime order by Helfgott , and then for and general by Dinai , and finally to general and independently by Pyber-Szabo and by Breuillard-Green-Tao ) later in this notes. A more qualitative version of this proposition was also previously obtained by Hrushovski . There are also generalisations of the product theorem of importance to number theory, in which the field is replaced by a cyclic ring (with n

Exercise 1 (Diameter bound) Assuming Theorem 1 , show that whenever is a symmetric set of generators of for some finite field and some , then any element of can be expressed as the product of elements from . (Equivalently, if we add the identity element to , then for some .) This is a special case of a conjecture of Babai and Seress , who conjectured that the bound should hold uniformly for all finite simple groups (in particular, the implied constants here should not actuall

证明或构造的主线

A key tool to establish product theorems is an argument which is sometimes referred to as the pivot argument . To illustrate this argument, let us first discuss a much simpler (and older) theorem, essentially due to Freiman , which has a much weaker conclusion but is valid in any group :

Theorem 2 (Baby product theorem) Let be a group, and let be a finite non-empty subset of . Then one of the following statements hold:

阅读时建议盯住的点

To prove this theorem, we suppose that the first conclusion does not hold, thus . Our task is then to place inside the left-coset of a fairly small group .

To do this, we take a group element , and consider the intersection . A priori , the size of this set could range from anywhere from to . However, we can use the hypothesis to obtain an important dichotomy, reminiscent of the classical fact that two cosets of a subgroup of are either identical or disjoint:

值得单独记下的条目

• (Trapping) is contained in a proper subgroup of .
• (Close to a subgroup) is contained in a left-coset of a group with .
• (Non-involved case) is empty.
• (i) Show that , with equality occuring if and only if is an additive coset of an finite additive subgroup of with some .
• (ii) Show that , with equality occuring if and only if is either equal to a multiplicative coset of a finite multiplicative subgroup of with some , or the set , or the set where is a multiplicative coset.
• (iii) Show that , with equality occuring if and only if is either equal to a multiplicative dilate of a finite subfield of with , a singleton set, or an additive subgroup of order .
• (Close to a subfield) There is a dilate of a subfield of with and which contains all but elements of .
• (Smallness) is an additive subgroup of order .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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