Nonlinear Roth type theorems in finite fields (Q1678498)

Let \(\mathbb{F}_{p}\) denote the finite field with \(p\) elements and let \(A \subset \mathbb{F}_{p}\) and the cardinality of \(A\) is \(p\delta\) with \(\delta > cp^{-1/15}\), where \(c > 0\) an appropriate constant. In this paper the authors proved that there are \(x \in A\), \(y \in \mathbb{F}_{p}^{*}\) such that \(x, x + y, x + y^{2} \in A\). The proof is based on Fourier analysis. On the other hand they also showed that there are \(x \in A\), \(y \in \mathbb{F}_{p}^{*}\) such that \(x, x + y, x + \bar{y} \in A\), where \(\bar{y}\) is the multiplicative inverse of \(y\) in \(\mathbb{F}_{p}^{*}\). In the proof they applied some results on multilinear Kloosterman sums.