Partitions and sums and products of integers

The principal result of the paper is that, if r < u and (A¡)i<r is a partition of u, then there exist i < r and infinite subsets B and C of to such that 2 F e A¡ and IIG G A¡ whenever F and G are finite nonempty subsets of B and C respectively. Conditions on the partition are obtained which are sufficient to guarantee that B and C can be chosen equal in the above statement, and some related finite questions are investigated.