Sárközy's multiplicative irreducibility conjecture for shifted quadratic residues

Let pp be a sufficiently large prime, and let Rp\mathcal R_p denote the set of nonzero squares in Fp\mathbb F_p. For λFp\lambda\in\mathbb F_p^*, consider the shifted set (Rpλ){0}(\mathcal R_p-\lambda)\setminus\{0\}. Sárközy's multiplicative irreducibility conjecture. For every λFp\lambda\in\mathbb F_p^*, the set (Rpλ){0}(\mathcal R_p-\lambda)\setminus\{0\} has no nontrivial multiplicative decomposition: there are no subsets A,BFpA,B\subseteq\mathbb F_p with A,B2|A|,|B|\geq 2 such that

AB=(Rpλ){0}.AB=(\mathcal R_p-\lambda)\setminus\{0\}.

This is the multiplicative analogue of Sárközy's conjecture on additive irreducibility of the quadratic residues. The supplied context states that the conjecture was completely resolved by Kalmynin, so its database status is solved.

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Primary source

Semin Yoo, “Multiplicative irreducibility of shifted multiplicative subgroups in the extremal case”, arXiv:2607.24370 (2026).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2602.20919, arXiv:2203.08671, arXiv:1905.09134.

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