On sumsets involving $k$th powers of finite fields

Abstract

In this paper, we study some topics concerning the additive decompositions of the set $D_k$ of all $k$th power residues modulo a prime $p$. For example, given a positive integer $k\ge 2$, we prove that $$\underset{x\to +\infty }{\lim }\frac{B(x)}{\pi (x)}=0,$$ where $\pi (x)$ is the number of primes $p\le x$ and $B(x)$ denotes the cardinality of the set $$\{p\le x:p\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}k);D_k\text{has a non-trivial 2-additive decomposition}\}.$$

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• Additive decompositions of large multiplicative subgroups in finite fields