On sumsets and spectral gaps

DOI10.4064/AA136-1-4zbMATH Open1246.11023arXiv0708.0381OpenAlexW2963027710MaRDI QIDQ3548495FDOQ3548495

Authors: Ernie Croot, Tomasz Schoen 

Publication date: 15 December 2008

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that if S is a subset of the integers mod p, and if the second-largest Fourier coefficient is ``small relative to the largest coefficient, then the sumset S+S is much larger than S. We show in the present paper that if instead of having such a large ``spectral gap between the largest and second-largest Fourier coefficients, we had it between the kth largest and the (k+1)st largest, the same thing holds true, namely that |S+S| is appreciably larger than |S|. Well, we only do this for k < (log p)/(log 4). We also obtain analogous results for repeated sumsets S+S+...+S, and it turns out that the more terms one includes, the larger the index k that can be used.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0381

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral gapsadditive combinatoricspseudorandom functionssumsets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30) Extremal combinatorics (05D99)

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