KYY's multiplicative decomposition conjecture for shifted subgroups
Let be fixed, let be a sufficiently large prime power with , and let be the multiplicative subgroup of index . For subsets , write . KYY's conjecture. For every , the set has no nontrivial multiplicative decomposition; equivalently, there are no subsets with such that
This is the proposed generalization of Sárközy's shifted-squares conjecture from fixed-index subgroups in finite fields; the supplied material gives no resolution, and the current paper's abstract instead presents the corresponding result as proved for every proper multiplicative subgroup.
References
Primary source
Seoyoung Kim, Chi Hoi Yip and Semin Yoo, “Multiplicative irreducibility of shifted multiplicative subgroups”, arXiv:2602.20919 (2026).
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