Tight lower bound on $|A+\lambda A|$ for algebraic integer $\lambda$

Abstract

We prove an asymptotically tight lower bound on $|A+\lambda A|$ for $A\subset \mathbb{C}$ and algebraic integer $\lambda$. The proof combines strong version of Freiman's theorem, structural theorem on dense subsets of a hypercubic lattice and a generalisation of the continuous result on tight bound for the measure of $K+\tau K$ for a compact subset $K\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of unit Lebesgue measure and a fixed linear operator $\tau\colon\mathbb{R}^d\to \mathbb{R}^d$, obtained in our previous work.