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arxiv: 1203.2659 · v2 · pith:2RI4NQFMnew · submitted 2012-03-12 · 🧮 math.CO

Sums of dilates in mathbb{Z}_p

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We consider the problem of sums of dilates in groups of prime order. We show that given $A\subset \Z{p}$ of sufficiently small density then $$\big| \lambda_{1}A+\lambda_{2}A+...+ \lambda_{k}A \big| \,\ge\,\bigg(\sum_{i}|\lambda_{i}|\bigg)|A|- o(|A|),$$ whereas on the other hand, for any $\epsilon>0$, we construct subsets of density $1/2-\epsilon$ such that $|A+\lambda A|\leq (1-\delta)p$, showing that there is a very different behaviour for subsets of large density.

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