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Sums of dilates in groups of prime order

Number Theory 2012-11-13 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We obtain a first non-trivial estimate for the sum of dilates problem in the case of groups of prime order, by showing that if tt is an integer different from 0,10, 1 or -1 and if \A\Zp\A \subset \Zp is not too large (with respect to pp), then \A+t\A>(2+ϑt)\Aw(t)|\A+t\cdot \A|>(2+ \vartheta_t)|\A|-w(t) for some constant w(t)w(t) depending only on tt and for some explicit real number ϑt>0\vartheta_t >0 (except in the case t=3|t|=3). In the important case t=2|t|=2, we may for instance take ϑ2=0.08\vartheta_2=0.08.

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@article{arxiv.1104.1997,
  title  = {Sums of dilates in groups of prime order},
  author = {Alain Plagne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1997},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Submitted in march