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「A variant of Kemperman’s theorem」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 1964, Kemperman established the following result:

Theorem 1 Let be a compact connected group, with a Haar probability measure . Let be compact subsets of . Then

已知结果和反例

Remark 1 The estimate is sharp, as can be seen by considering the case when is a unit circle, and are arcs; similarly if is any compact connected group that projects onto the circle. The connectedness hypothesis is essential, as can be seen by considering what happens if and are a non-trivial open subgroup of . For locally compact connected groups which are unimodular but not compact, there is an analogous statement, but with now a Haar measure instead of a Haar probability m

By inner regularity, the hypothesis that are compact can be replaced with Borel measurability, so long as one then adds the additional hypothesis that is also Borel measurable.

证明或构造的主线

A short proof of Kemperman’s theorem was given by Ruzsa . 在这类讨论里 I wanted to record how this argument can be used to establish the following more “robust” version of Kemperman’s theorem, which not only lower bounds , but gives many elements of some multiplicity:

Theorem 2 Let be a compact connected group, with a Haar probability measure . Let be compact subsets of . Then for any , one has

阅读时建议盯住的点

Indeed, Theorem 1 can be deduced from Theorem 2 by dividing (1) by and then taking limits as . The bound in (1) is sharp, as can again be seen by considering the case when are arcs in a circle. The analogous claim for cyclic groups for prime order was established by Pollard , and for general abelian groups by Green and Ruzsa .

Let us now prove Theorem 2 . It uses a submodularity argument related to one discussed in this previous post . We fix and with , and define the quantity

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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