A famous result of Freiman describes the structure of finite sets A ⊆ Z with small doubling property. If |A + A| K|A| then A is contained within a multidimensional arithmetic progression of dimension d(K) and size f (K)|A|. Here we prove an analogous statement valid for subsets of an arbitrary abelian group.
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