Polynomial values modulo primes on average and sharpness of the larger sieve

DOI10.2140/ANT.2015.9.2325MaRDI QIDQ901790zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xuancheng Shao

Publication date 12 January 2016

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7160

zbMATH Keywords

Galois grouplarge sieveinverse sieve conjecturevalue set of a polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density theorems (11R45) Sieves (11N35)

Abstract: This paper is motivated by the following question in sieve theory. Given a subset $Xsubset[N]$ and $alphain(0,1/2)$. Suppose that $|Xpmodp|leq(alpha+o(1))p$ for every prime $p$. How large can $X$ be? On the one hand, we have the bound $|X|l{l}_{alpha}{N}^{alpha}$ from Gallagher's larger sieve. On the other hand, we prove, assuming the truth of an inverse sieve conjecture, that the bound above can be improved (for example, to $|X|l{l}_{alpha}{N}^{O(alph{a}^{2014})}$ for small $alpha$). The result follows from studying the average size of $|Xpmodp|$ as $p$ varies, when $X=f(mathbbZ)cap[N]$ is the value set of a polynomial $f(x)inmathbbZ[x]$.

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