Dartyge–Sárközy conjecture on additive decompositions of primitive elements

Let pp be a prime, let Fp\mathbb{F}_p be the finite field with pp elements, and let PpP_p denote the set of primitive elements of Fp\mathbb{F}_p. For subsets A,BFpA,B\subseteq\mathbb{F}_p, write

A+B={a+b:aA, bB}.A+B=\{a+b:a\in A,\ b\in B\}.

Dartyge–Sárközy conjecture. If pp is large enough, then

A+BPpA+B\neq P_p

for any A,BFpA,B\subseteq\mathbb{F}_p with A,B2|A|,|B|\ge 2.

This conjecture concerns whether the set of primitive elements of a finite field can admit a nontrivial additive decomposition. The source attributes it to Dartyge and Sárközy; no resolution is supplied here.

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Hai-Liang Wu and Yue-Feng She, “On additive decompositions of primitive elements in finite fields”, arXiv:2202.05021 (2022).

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