Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

The thesis investigates a version of the sum-product inequality studied by Chang in which one tries to prove the h-fold sumset is large under the assumption that the 2-fold product set is small. Previous bounds were logarithmic in the exponent, and we prove the first super-logarithmic bound. We will also discuss a new technique inspired by convex geometry to find an order-preserving Freiman 2-isomorphism between a set with small doubling and a small interval. Time permitting, we will discuss some combinatorial applications of this result.