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On the additive energy of the Heilbronn subgroup

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A new upper bound for the additive energy of the Heilbronn subgroup is found. Several applications to the distribution of Fermat quotients are obtained.

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Original Russian Text © I. V. V’yugin, E. V. Solodkova, I. D. Shkredov, 2017, published in Matematicheskie Zametki, 2017, Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 43–57.

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V’yugin, I.V., Solodkova, E.V. & Shkredov, I.D. On the additive energy of the Heilbronn subgroup. Math Notes 101, 58–70 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434617010060

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