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Let $B$ be a set of natural numbers of size $n$. We prove that the length of the longest arithmetic progression contained in the product set $B.B = \{bb'| \, b, b' \in B\}$ cannot be greater than $O(n \log n)$ which matches the lower bound…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Dmitry Zhelezov

We study solutions to the equation $a+b=c$, where $a,b,c$ form a triple of coprime natural numbers. The $abc$ conjecture asserts that, for any $\epsilon>0$, such triples satisfy $\mathrm{rad}(abc) \ge c^{1-\epsilon}$ with finitely many…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Christian Bernert , Tim Browning , Jared Duker Lichtman , Joni Teräväinen

We prove, for a sufficiently small subset $\mathcal{A}$ of a prime residue field, an estimate on the number of solutions to the equation $(a_1-a_2)(a_3-a_4) = (a_5-a_6)(a_7-a_8)$ with all variables in $\mathcal{A}$. We then derive new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Simon Macourt , Giorgis Petridis , Ilya D. Shkredov , Igor E. Shparlinski

We improve a result of Solymosi on sum-products in R, namely, we prove that max{|A+A|,|AA|}\gg |A|^{4/3+c}, where c>0 is an absolute constant. New lower bounds for sums of sets with small product set are found. Previous results are improved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Sergei Konyagin , Ilya D. Shkredov

We use an estimate of Aksoy Yazici, Murphy, Rudnev and Shkredov (2016) on the number of solutions of certain equations involving products and differences of sets in prime finite fields to give an explicit upper bound on trilinear…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Giorgis Petridis , Igor E. Shparlinski

In this paper we obtain a new sum-product estimate in prime fields. In particular, we show that if $A\subseteq \mathbb{F}_p$ satisfies $|A|\le p^{64/117}$ then $$ \max\{|A\pm A|, |AA|\} \gtrsim |A|^{39/32}. $$ Our argument builds on and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Changhao Chen , Bryce Kerr , Ali Mohammadi

We show that if A is a set having small subtractive doubling in an abelian group, that is |A-A|< K|A|, then there is a polynomially large subset B of A-A so that the additive energy of B is large than (1/K)^{1 - \epsilon) where epsilon is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-03-03 Nets Hawk Katz , Paul Koester

This paper considers various formulations of the sum-product problem. It is shown that, for a finite set $A\subset{\mathbb{R}}$, $$|A(A+A)|\gg{|A|^{\frac{3}{2}+\frac{1}{178}}},$$ giving a partial answer to a conjecture of Balog. In a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-09 Brendan Murphy , Oliver Roche-Newton , Ilya D. Shkredov

The goal of this work is to prove a new sure upper bound in a setting that can be thought of as a simplified function field analogue. This result is comparable to a recent result of the author concerning almost sure upper bound of random…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Rachid Caich

The purpose of this article is to further explore how the structure of the affine group can be used to deduce new incidence theorems, and to explore sum-product type applications of these incidence bounds, building on the recent work of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Oliver Roche-Newton , Audie Warren

It was asked by E. Szemer\'edi if, for a finite set $A\subset\mathbb{Z}$, one can improve estimates for $\max\{|A+A|,|A\cdot A|\}$, under the constraint that all integers involved have a bounded number of prime factors -- that is, each…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Brandon Hanson , Misha Rudnev , Ilya Shkredov , Dmitrii Zhelezov

We extend the recent Solymosi's sum-product estimate for reals to the complex case.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Tim Jones , Misha Rudnev

Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field of order $q$, where $q$ is a power of a prime. For a set $A \subset \mathbb{F}_q$, under certain structural restrictions, we prove a new explicit lower bound on the size of the product set $A(A + 1)$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Ali Mohammadi

We obtain a new upper bound for binary sums with multiplicative characters over variables belong to some sets, having small additive doubling.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Aleksei S. Volostnov

We generalise and improve some recent bounds for additive energies of modular roots. Our arguments use a variety of techniques, including those from additive combinatorics, algebraic number theory and the geometry of numbers. We give…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Bryce Kerr , Ilya D. Shkredov , Igor E. Shparlinski , Alexandru Zaharescu

This paper gives an improved sum-product estimate for subsets of a finite field whose order is not prime. It is shown, under certain conditions, that $$\max\{|A+A|,|A\cdot{A}|\}\gg{\frac{|A|^{12/11}}{(\log_2|A|)^{5/11}}}.$$ This new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Liangpan Li , Oliver Roche-Newton

We improve the best known sum-product estimates over the reals. We prove that \[ \max(|A+A|,|AA|)\geq |A|^{\frac{4}{3} + \frac{2}{1167} - o(1)}\,, \] for a finite $A\subset \mathbb R$, following a streamlining of the arguments of Solymosi,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Misha Rudnev , Sophie Stevens

We improve an existing result on exponential quadrilinear sums in the case of sums over multiplicative subgroups of a finite field and use it to give a new bound on exponential sums with quadrinomials.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Simon Macourt

We say that a set is a multiplicative 3-Sidon set if the equation $s_1s_2s_3=t_1t_2t_3$ does not have a solution consisting of distinct elements taken from this set. In this paper we show that the size of a multiplicative 3-Sidon subset of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Péter Pál Pach

We prove that any multiplicative subgroup G of the prime field f_p with |G| < p^{1/2} satisfies |3G| \gg |G|^2 / \log |G|. Also, we obtain a bound for the multiplicative energy of any nonzero shift of G, namely E^* (G+x) \ll |G|^2 log |G|,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Ilya D. Shkredov