{"paper":{"title":"The Structure of Critical Product Sets","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.GR"],"primary_cat":"math.CO","authors_text":"Matt DeVos","submitted_at":"2013-01-01T15:35:06Z","abstract_excerpt":"Let $G$ be a multiplicative group, let $A,B \\subseteq G$ be finite and nonempty, and define the product set $AB = {ab \\mid $a \\in A$ and $b \\in B$}$. Two fundamental problems in combinatorial number theory are to find lower bounds on $|AB|$, and then to determine structural properties of $A$ and $B$ under the assumption that $|AB|$ is small. We focus on the extreme case when $|AB| < |A| + |B|$, and call any such pair $(A,B)$ \\emph{critical}.\n  In the case when $|G|$ is prime, the Cauchy-Davenport Theorem asserts that $|AB| \\ge \\min {|G|, |A| + |B| - 1}$, and Vosper refined this result by class"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1301.0096","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}