Additive energy of polynomial images

Abstract: Given a monic polynomial

f (X) i n m a t h b b Z_{m} [X]

over a residue ring

m a t h b b Z_{m}

modulo an integer

m g e 2

and a discrete interval

m a t h c a l I = 1, l d o t s, H

of

H l e m

consecutive integers, considered as elements of

m a t h b b Z_{m}

, we obtain a new upper bound for the additive energy of the set

f (m a t h c a l I)

, where

f (m a t h c a l I)

denotes the image set

f (m a t h c a l I) = f (u) : u i n m a t h c a l I

. We give an application of our bounds to multiplicative character sums, improving some previous result of Shkredov and Shparlinski~(2018).

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