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Main Author: Kalmynin, Alexander
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10202
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contents In this paper, we employ a version of Stepanov's method, developed by Hanson and Petridis, to prove several results on additive irreducibility of multiplicative subgroups in finite fields of prime order $p$. Specifically, we show that if a subgroup $μ_d$ of $d$-th roots of unity satisfies $A-A=μ_d\cup\{0\}$, then $d=2$ or $6$. Additionally, we resolve the Sárközy's conjecture on quadratic residues: for prime $p$, the set $\mathcal R_p$ of quadratic residues modulo $p$ cannot be represented as $A+B$ for $A,B$ with $\min(|A|,|B|)>1$. More generally, we prove that if the set of $d$-th roots of unity $μ_d$ is represented non-trivially as $A+B$, then the sizes of summands are equal.
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spellingShingle On additive irreducibility of multiplicative subgroups
Kalmynin, Alexander
Number Theory
In this paper, we employ a version of Stepanov's method, developed by Hanson and Petridis, to prove several results on additive irreducibility of multiplicative subgroups in finite fields of prime order $p$. Specifically, we show that if a subgroup $μ_d$ of $d$-th roots of unity satisfies $A-A=μ_d\cup\{0\}$, then $d=2$ or $6$. Additionally, we resolve the Sárközy's conjecture on quadratic residues: for prime $p$, the set $\mathcal R_p$ of quadratic residues modulo $p$ cannot be represented as $A+B$ for $A,B$ with $\min(|A|,|B|)>1$. More generally, we prove that if the set of $d$-th roots of unity $μ_d$ is represented non-trivially as $A+B$, then the sizes of summands are equal.
title On additive irreducibility of multiplicative subgroups
topic Number Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10202