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Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory, New York Number Theory Seminar

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A New Proof of Khovanskiĭ’s Theorem on the Geometry of Sumsets

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Khovanskiĭ studied how iterated sumsets grow geometrically, and provided the growth polynomial for sumsets as well as an approximation to lattice points inside polytopes. In this paper, we present a new proof of the theorem about geometric growth of sumsets.

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  • Sumsets
  • Geometry of numbers
  • Geometry of sumsets
  • Growth of sumsets
  • Lattice points

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  1. Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), New York, NY, USA

    Jaewoo Lee

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Lehman College (CUNY), Bronx, New York, USA

    Melvyn B. Nathanson

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Lee, J. (2017). A New Proof of Khovanskiĭ’s Theorem on the Geometry of Sumsets. In: Nathanson, M. (eds) Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory II. CANT CANT 2015 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 220. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68032-3_13

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