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HIGH DENSITY PIECEWISE SYNDETICITY OF PRODUCT SETS IN AMENABLE GROUPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2016

MAURO DI NASSO
Affiliation:
DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA UNIVERSITA’ DI PISA LARGO BRUNO PONTECORVO 5 PISA 56127, ITALYE-mail: dinasso@dm.unipi.it
ISAAC GOLDBRING
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS, AND COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OFFICES M/C 249 851 S. MORGAN ST., CHICAGO, IL, 60607-7045, USAE-mail: isaac@math.uic.edu
RENLING JIN
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON CHARLESTON, SC, 29424, USAE-mail: jinr@cofc.edu
STEVEN LETH
Affiliation:
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO CAMPUS BOX 122, 510 20TH STREET GREELEY, CO 80639, USAE-mail: steven.leth@unco.edu
MARTINO LUPINI
Affiliation:
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1200 E. CALIFORNIA BLVD. MC 253-37 PASADENA, CA 91125, USAE-mail: lupini@caltech.edu
KARL MAHLBURG
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY 228 LOCKETT HALL BATON ROUGE, LA 70803, USAE-mail: mahlburg@math.lsu.edu

Abstract

M. Beiglböck, V. Bergelson, and A. Fish proved that if G is a countable amenable group and A and B are subsets of G with positive Banach density, then the product set AB is piecewise syndetic. This means that there is a finite subset E of G such that EAB is thick, that is, EAB contains translates of any finite subset of G. When G = ℤ, this was first proven by R. Jin. We prove a quantitative version of the aforementioned result by providing a lower bound on the density (with respect to a Følner sequence) of the set of witnesses to the thickness of EAB. When G = ℤd, this result was first proven by the current set of authors using completely different techniques.

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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2016 

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