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Sum-product phenomenon

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The sum-product phenomenon says that a finite subset of a field cannot usually have both a small sumset and a small product set unless it has additional subfield-like structure.
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Solymosi sum-product theorem over the complex numbers

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Sum-product phenomenon
For finite U,V,W⊆C with U={0} and W={0},
∣U+V∣∣UW∣≥561​∣U∣3/2∣V∣1/2∣W∣1/2.
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In particular, addition and multiplication cannot both expand a nontrivial finite set of complex numbers only slightly.

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