TY - GEN AU - Tao, Terence AU - Vu, Van H. TI - Additive combinatorics SN - 9780521170123 U1 - 511.6 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Combinatorial analysis KW - Additive combinatorics KW - General principles of mathematics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 488-504) and index N2 - Additive combinatorics is the theory of counting additive structures in sets. This theory has seen exciting developments and dramatic changes in direction in recent years thanks to its connections with areas such as number theory, ergodic theory and graph theory. This graduate-level 2006 text will allow students and researchers easy entry into this fascinating field. Here, the authors bring together in a self-contained and systematic manner the many different tools and ideas that are used in the modern theory, presenting them in an accessible, coherent, and intuitively clear manner, and providing immediate applications to problems in additive combinatorics. The power of these tools is well demonstrated in the presentation of recent advances such as Szemerédi's theorem on arithmetic progressions, the Kakeya conjecture and Erdos distance problems, and the developing field of sum-product estimates. The text is supplemented by a large number of exercises and new results ER -