%0 Journal Article
%T On the dimension of iterated sumsets
%A J£¿rg Schmeling
%A Pablo Shmerkin
%J Mathematics
%D 2009
%I arXiv
%X Let A be a subset of the real line. We study the fractal dimensions of the k-fold iterated sumsets kA, defined as kA = A+...+A (k times). We show that for any non-decreasing sequence {a_k} taking values in [0,1], there exists a compact set A such that kA has Hausdorff dimension a_k for all k. We also show how to control various kinds of dimension simultaneously for families of iterated sumsets. These results are in stark contrast to the Plunnecke-Rusza inequalities in additive combinatorics. However, for lower box-counting dimension, the analogue of the Plunnecke-Rusza inequalities does hold.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1537v2