An analytic approach to cardinalities of sumsets

Abstract

Let $d$ be a positive integer and $U \subset \mathbb{Z}^d$ finite. We study $$\beta(U) : = \inf_{\substack{A , B \neq \emptyset \\ \text{finite}}} \frac{|A+B+U|}{|A|^{1/2}{|B|^{1/2}}},$$ and other related quantities. We employ tensorization, which is not available for the doubling constant, $|U+U|/|U|$. For instance, we show $$\beta(U) = |U|,$$ whenever $U$ is a subset of $\{0,1\}^d$. Our methods parallel those used for the Pr\'ekopa-Leindler inequality, an integral variant of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality.