Intersective sets over abelian groups

arXiv2207.00053MaRDI QIDQ6403676FDOQ6403676

Authors: Zixiang Xu, Chi Hoi Yip 

Publication date: 30 June 2022

Abstract: Given a finite abelian group $G$ and a subset $JsubsetG$ with $0inJ$, let $D_G(J,N)$ be the maximum size of $Asubset{G}^N$ such that the difference set $A-A$ and $J^N$ have no non-trivial intersection. Recently, this extremal problem has been widely studied for different groups $G$ and subsets $J$. In this paper, we generalize and improve the relevant results by Alon and by HegedH{u}s by building a bridge between this problem and cyclotomic polynomials with the help of algebraic graph theory. In particular, we construct infinitely many non-trivial families of $G$ and $J$ for which the current known upper bounds on $D_G(J,N)$ can be improved exponentially. We also obtain a new upper bound $D_{mathbb{F}_p}(0,1,N)le(frac12+o(1))(p-1{)}^N$, which improves the previously best-known result by Huang, Klurman, and Pohoata.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in number theory (11C08) Extremal set theory (05D05) Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30)

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