{ "id": "1308.3853", "version": "v2", "published": "2013-08-18T12:29:27.000Z", "updated": "2016-09-12T15:29:14.000Z", "title": "A generalization of Frieman's 3k-3 theorem", "authors": [ "Shanshan Du", "Hao Pan" ], "comment": "Seemingly the main result of this paper is not strong in most cases", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We prove a generalization of Frieman's $3k-3$ theorem for the sumset $$ \\Sigma^{l}(A_1,\\ldots,A_k)=\\{a_{j_{1}}+\\cdots+a_{j_{l}}:\\,1\\leq j_{1}<\\cdots