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- Erdős's sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers but remains open for integers.
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Finally, note that these sets $A$ get arbitrarily large, but only exist in number fields of degree $d\to \infty$. In particular they are far from subsets of the integers, which is the main setting which concerned Erdős (although he did also ask it for the reals). It remains wide open whether counterexamples exist to the sum-product conjecture in the integers, and I expect any proof or disproof to require much deeper number theory than is being used here.
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