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Query complexity and the polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture

We prove a query complexity variant of the weak polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture in the following form. For any $ε> 0$, a set $A \subset \mathbb{Z}^d$ with doubling $K$ has a subset of size at least $K^{-\frac{4}ε}|A|$ with coordinate query complexity at most $ε\log_2 |A|$. We apply this structural result to give a simple proof of the "few products, many sums" phenomenon for integer sets. The resulting bounds are explicit and improve on the seminal result of Bourgain and Chang.