{ "id": "1005.1820", "version": "v2", "published": "2010-05-11T12:56:08.000Z", "updated": "2012-11-23T14:14:37.000Z", "title": "Powers of sets in free groups", "authors": [ "Stanislav Safin" ], "comment": "3 pages", "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We prove that |A^n| > c_n |A|^{[\\frac{n+1}{2}]} for any finite subset A of a free group if A contains at least two noncommuting elements, where c_n>0 are constants not depending on A. Simple examples show that the order of these estimates are the best possible for each n>0.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-11-23T14:14:37.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20E05" ], "keywords": [ "free group", "finite subset", "simple examples", "noncommuting elements" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1070/SM2011v202n11ABEH004203", "journal": "Sbornik: Mathematics", "year": 2011, "month": "Nov", "volume": 202, "number": 11, "pages": 1661 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 3, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011SbMat.202.1661S" } } }