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Character sums estimates and an application to a problem of Balog

Number Theory 2020-04-07 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove new bounds for sums of multiplicative characters over sums of set with small doubling and applying this result we break the square--root barrier in a problem of Balog concerning products of differences in a field of prime order.

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@article{arxiv.2004.01885,
  title  = {Character sums estimates and an application to a problem of Balog},
  author = {Tomasz Schoen and Ilya D. Shkredov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.01885},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages