Let $f(t)\in\mathbb{Z}[t]$ be a nonconstant polynomial with nonzero discriminant and let $k\ge2$ be an integer. Inspired by the work of Alon and Bourgain, for sufficiently large prime $p\equiv1\pmod{k}$, we study cyclic orderings of subsets $A\subseteq \mathbb{F}_p$ for which $ f(a_i+a_{i+1})$ is a nonzero $k$-th power for every consecutive pair. By combining mixed character-sum estimates, Fourier analysis on $\mathbb{F}_p$, and spectral graph methods, we establish a threshold $c(p,k,f)$ such that every subset $A$ with $\#A\ge c(p,k,f)$ admits such a cyclic ordering. We also give lower and upper bounds for the optimal threshold.
Let $p$ be a prime and let $\mathcal{P}_p$ be the set of primitive elements of $\mathbb{F}_p$. Inspired by the work of Cohen, Oliveira e Silva and Trudgian on consecutive primitive elements, and by the work of Chang on arithmetic progressions in multiplicative subgroups of finite fields, in this paper, using estimates...
We prove an incidence bound for bipartite graphs on finite subsets of $\mathbb{F}^2\times \mathbb{F}^2$ defined by Boolean combinations of polynomial equations of bounded degree. If such a graph is $K_{k,k}$-free and its vertex classes have sizes $m$ and $n$, then it has $O_{t,k}((mn)^{2/3}+m+n+mn/p)$ edges, where $t$...
Let $n \geq 2$ be a positive integer, and $q$ be a prime power. We study the $number$ of additive decompositions of nonscalar matrices in the matrix ring $M_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ as sums of elements from two prescribed conjugacy classes. Let $z \in M_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ be nonscalar. We show that, except for the case $(n,q,\te...
Let $C$ be a smooth projective geometrically connected curve over a field $k$ with a $k$-rational point. Let $J$ be the Jacobian variety of $C$. For an integer $r\geq 1$ and a positive integer $n$ prime to the characteristic of $k$, we prove that the Galois symbol map \[ K(k;J,\mathbb{G}_{m},\ldots,\mathbb{G}_{m})/n \t...
Let $p \geq 5$ be a prime, let $K$ be a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, and let $E/K$ be an elliptic curve with good reduction. Let $F_n$ denote the $n$-division polynomial of $E$. Silverman proved that if the reduction is ordinary, then for every $P \in E(K) \setminus \hat{E}(K)$ and a suitable power $q$ of $p$, t...
For $k\geq2$, let $\alpha_k$ be the supremum of the exponents $a$ for which almost every integer $n$ has $k$ distinct divisors in a multiplicative interval of relative length $(\log n)^{-a}$. Select each positive integer $i$ independently with probability $1/i$, forming a random set $\mathbf A$, and let $\beta_k$ be th...
Jian-Feng Hou, Hong-Bin Zhao· 0 citations
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