Multiplicative irreducibility of shifted multiplicative subgroups

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Hauptverfasser: Kim, Seoyoung, Yip, Chi Hoi, Yoo, Semin
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author Kim, Seoyoung
Yip, Chi Hoi
Yoo, Semin
author_facet Kim, Seoyoung
Yip, Chi Hoi
Yoo, Semin
contents In a recent breakthrough, Kalmynin resolved conjectures of Lev--Sonn and Sárközy on additive decompositions of multiplicative subgroups of prime fields. In this paper, inspired by a related conjecture of Sárközy, we prove multiplicative analogues of Kalmynin's results. We show that for every proper multiplicative subgroup $G$, the shifted set $(G-1)\setminus\{0\}$ cannot be written as a product set nontrivially, addressing a conjecture of Sárközy. In addition, we prove that no nonzero shift of any coset of a proper multiplicative subgroup is a ratio set of the form $A/A$. Our results substantially sharpen previous theorems of Shkredov and the authors.
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spellingShingle Multiplicative irreducibility of shifted multiplicative subgroups
Kim, Seoyoung
Yip, Chi Hoi
Yoo, Semin
Combinatorics
Number Theory
11P70, 11B30
In a recent breakthrough, Kalmynin resolved conjectures of Lev--Sonn and Sárközy on additive decompositions of multiplicative subgroups of prime fields. In this paper, inspired by a related conjecture of Sárközy, we prove multiplicative analogues of Kalmynin's results. We show that for every proper multiplicative subgroup $G$, the shifted set $(G-1)\setminus\{0\}$ cannot be written as a product set nontrivially, addressing a conjecture of Sárközy. In addition, we prove that no nonzero shift of any coset of a proper multiplicative subgroup is a ratio set of the form $A/A$. Our results substantially sharpen previous theorems of Shkredov and the authors.
title Multiplicative irreducibility of shifted multiplicative subgroups
topic Combinatorics
Number Theory
11P70, 11B30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20919