Inverse restricted Erdős–Heilbronn conjecture below the prime threshold

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Let GG be an abelian group, let pp be the smallest prime divisor of the order of GG, and let AA be an mm-subset of GG. Assume that mm and hh are positive integers satisfying p>hm−h2+1p>hm-h^2+1. Inverse restricted Erdős–Heilbronn conjecture. If hAhA has size hm−h2+1hm-h^2+1, then and only then either h=1h=1, AA is an arithmetic progression, or h=2h=2, m=4m=4, and

A={a,a+g1,a+g2,a+g1+g2}A=\{a,a+g_1,a+g_2,a+g_1+g_2\}

for some a∈Aa\in A and g1,g2∈Gg_1,g_2\in G. This is the restricted-addition analogue of the stated inverse results for unrestricted sumsets and remains open.

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Bela Bajnok, “A Walk Through Some Newer Parts of Additive Combinatorics”, arXiv:2211.01893 (2022).

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