Research Interests

I am a mathematician specializing in Additive Combinatorics, Number Theory, Classical Analysis, and Combinatorial Ergodic Theory.

Research topics: exponential sums and Fourier analysis, the sum-product phenomenon, inverse results in additive combinatorics, uniformly distributed sequences, continued fractions, ordinary and multiple recurrence, multi-dimensional generalizations of Szemeredi's theorem


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Education & Degrees

  • Doctor of Physical and Math. Sciences (Habilitation), Saint-Petersburg State University, 2009.
  • Candidate of Sciences (PhD), Moscow State University, 2005.
    Advisor: Professor Nikolay G. Moshchevitin

Past Fellowships & Visiting Positions

  • Postdoctoral Member, IAS, Princeton (Arithmetic Combinatorics program, 2007)
  • Postdoctoral Member, MSRI, Berkeley (Dynamical Systems and Additive Combinatorics program, 2008)
  • Consultant, Microsoft Research (five terms)
  • Visiting Professor / Researcher at MPIM (Bonn), University of Sydney/Mathematical Research Institute, LIMS, Mathematisches Institut (Gottingen).

Surveys

  • Noncommutative methods in Additive Combinatorics and Number Theory. Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 76:6 (462) (2021) 119–180
  • Structural theorems in additive combinatorics. Russian Mathematical Surveys, 70:1 (2015) 123–178
  • Fourier analysis in combinatorial number theory. Russian Mathematical Surveys, 65:3 (2010) 513–567
  • Szemerédi’s theorem and problems concerning arithmetic progressions. Russian Mathematical Surveys, 61:6 (2006) 1101–1166

  • 2. Higher energies.

  • On Fourier coefficients of sets with small doubling. E–JC (accepted).
  • On universal sets and sumsets. Israel Journal of Mathematics (accepted).
  • Uncertainty for convolutions of sets. Proc. AMS, 154:2 (2026) 615–627; DOI:10.1090/proc/17485
  • Some new results on the higher energies. JNT, 281 (2026) 110–138; DOI:10.1016/j.jnt.2025.09.018
  • The popularity gap. (with V. Lev) Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 58 (2023) 1155–1172; DOI:10.1007/s10801-023-01268-w
  • On an application of higher energies to Sidon sets. Combinatorica, 43 (2023) 329–345; DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00013-y
  • Small doubling in prime-order groups: from 2.4 to 2.6. (with V.F. Lev) Journal of Number Theory, 217 (2020) 278–291; DOI:10.1016/j.jnt.2020.05.009
  • Double character sums with intervals and arbitrary sets in finite fields. (with I.E. Shparlinski) Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 303 (2018) 1–21
  • Structural theorems in additive combinatorics. Russian Mathematical Surveys, 70:1 (2015) 123–178
  • Energies and structure of additive sets. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 21:3 (2014) P3.44
  • On exponential sums over multiplicative subgroups of medium size. Finite Fields and Their Applications, 30 (2014) 72–87
  • Some new results on higher energies. Transactions of Moscow Mathematical Society, 74:1 (2013) 35–73
  • On Heilbronn’s exponential sum. Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 64:4 (2013) 1221–1230
  • Some new inequalities in additive combinatorics. Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory, 3:2 (2013) 237–288
  • Higher moments of convolutions. (with T. Schoen) Journal of Number Theory, 133 (2013) 1693–1737
  • Additive properties of multiplicative subgroups of F_p. (with T. Schoen) Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 63:3 (2012) 713–722
  • Some applications of W. Rudin’s inequality to combinatorial number theory. Uniform Distribution Theory, 6:2 (2011) 95–116
  • 3. The sum-product phenomenon.

  • On a paucity result in Incidence Geometry. Forum Mathematicum (accepted).
  • The sum-product problem for integers with few prime factors. (with B. Hanson, M. Rudnev and D. Zhelezov) Compositio Mathematica, 161:3 (2025) 427–446; DOI:10.1112/S0010437X24007735
  • On the determinants of matrices with elements from arbitrary sets. (with I.E. Shparlinski) Mathematika, 71:2 (2025) 1–18; DOI:10.1112/mtk.70018
  • On some multiplicative properties of large difference sets. Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 76:5 (2024) 1538–1555; DOI:10.4153/S0008414X23000500
  • On multiplicative Chung–Diaconis–Graham process. Mat. Sbornik, 214:6 (2023) 136–154; DOI:10.4213/sm9811
  • Character sums estimates and an application to a problem of Balog. (with T. Schoen) Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 71:3 (2022) 953–964
  • On multiplicative energy of subsets of varieties. Canadian Journal of Mathematics (2022) 1–19; DOI:10.4153/S0008414X21000687
  • On sums and products of combinatorial cubes. Finite Fields and Their Applications, 77 (2022) 101948; DOI:10.1016/j.ffa.2021.101948
  • Bounds of trilinear and trinomial exponential sums. (with S. Macourt, G. Petridis and I.E. Shparlinski) SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 34:4 (2020) 2124–2136; DOI:10.1137/20M1325502
  • On popular sums and differences of sets with small products. (with K.I. Olmezov and A.S. Semchankau) Mathematical Notes, 108:4 (2020) 561–571
  • Stronger sum-product inequalities for small sets. (with G. Shakan and M. Rudnev) Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 148 (2020) 1467–1479; DOI:10.1090/proc/14902
  • Any small multiplicative subgroup is not a sumset. Finite Fields and Their Applications, 63 (2020) 101645; DOI:10.1016/j.ffa.2020.101645
  • On the energy variant of the sum-product conjecture. (with M. Rudnev and S. Stevens) Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 36:1 (2020) 207–232; DOI:10.4171/RMI/1126
  • On the few products, many sums problem. (with B. Murphy, M. Rudnev and Y.N. Shteinikov) Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, 31:3 (2019) 573–602
  • Some remarks on products of sets in the Heisenberg group and in the affine group. Forum Mathematicum, 32:1 (2019) 189–199; DOI:10.1515/forum-2019-0181
  • New results on sum-product type growth over fields. (with B. Murphy, G. Petridis, O. Roche-Newton and M. Rudnev) Mathematika, 65:3 (2019) 588–642
  • Some remarks on the asymmetric sum-product phenomenon. Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory, 8:1 (2019) 15–41; DOI:10.2140/moscow.2019.8.15
  • If A+A is small then AAA is superquadratic. (with O. Roche-Newton) Journal of Number Theory, 201 (2019) 124–134
  • On the size of the set AA+A. (with O. Roche-Newton, I.Z. Ruzsa and C.-Y. Shen) Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 99:2 (2019) 477–494
  • A note on the set A(A+A). (with P.-Y. Bienvenu and F. Hennecart) Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory, 8:2 (2019) 179–188; DOI:10.2140/moscow.2019.8.179
  • On the restriction problem for discrete paraboloid in lower dimension. (with M. Rudnev) Advances in Mathematics, 339 (2018) 657–671; DOI:10.1016/j.aim.2018.10.002
  • Multiplicative Energy of Shifted Subgroups and Bounds on Exponential Sums with Trinomials in Finite Fields. (with S. Macourt and I.E. Shparlinski) Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 70:6 (2018) 1319–1338; DOI:10.4153/CJM-2017-044-2
  • On asymptotic formulae in some sum-product questions. Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society, 79:2 (2018) 271–334
  • On additive bases of sets with small product set. (with D. Zhelezov) International Mathematics Research Notices, 2018:5 (2018) 1585–1599; DOI:10.1093/imrn/rnw291
  • Differences of subgroups in subgroups. International Journal of Number Theory, 14:4 (2018) 1111–1134; DOI:10.1142/S1793042118500690
  • An application of the sum-product phenomenon to sets having no solutions of several linear equations. Sbornik: Mathematics, 209:4 (2018) 117–142; DOI:10.1070/SM8907
  • Variations on the sum-product problem II. (with B. Murphy and O. Roche-Newton) SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 31:3 (2017) 1878–1894
  • On some multiple character sums. (with I.E. Shparlinski) Mathematika, 63:2 (2017) 553–560; DOI:10.1112/S0025579317000055
  • Sums of multiplicative characters with additive convolutions. (with A.S. Volostnov) Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 296 (2017) 265–279
  • Some remarks on the Balog–Wooley decomposition theorem and quantities D⁺, D×. Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 298:1 (2017) 74–90
  • Growth Estimates in Positive Characteristic via Collisions. (with E. Aksoy Yazici, B. Murphy and M. Rudnev) International Mathematics Research Notices, 2017:23 (2017) 7148–7189; DOI:10.1093/imrn/rnw206
  • On the number of unit-area triangles spanned by convex grids in the plane. (with O.E. Raz and M. Sharir) Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 62 (2017) 25–33; DOI:10.1016/j.comgeo.2016.12.002
  • On the additive energy of Heilbronn's subgroup. (with E. Solodkova and I. Vyugin) Mathematical Notes, 101:1 (2017) 43–57
  • Some remarks on sets with small quotient set. Sbornik: Mathematics, 208:12 (2017) 144–158; DOI:10.1070/SM8733
  • New results on sum-products in R. (with S.V. Konyagin) Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 294 (2016) 87–98
  • Difference sets are not multiplicatively closed. Discrete Analysis, 17 (2016) 1–21; DOI:10.19086/da.913
  • Intersections of Shifts of Multiplicative Subgroups. (with E. Solodkova and I. Vyugin) Mathematical Notes, 100:2 (2016) 189–198
  • On tripling constant of multiplicative subgroups. INTEGERS, 16 (2016) A75
  • New sum-product type estimates over finite fields. (with O. Roche-Newton and M. Rudnev) Advances in Mathematics, 293 (2016) 589–605
  • Variations on the sum-product problem. (with B. Murphy and O. Roche-Newton) SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 29:1 (2015) 514–540
  • On sum sets of sets having small product sets. (with S.V. Konyagin) Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 290 (2015) 304–316
  • On a question of A. Balog. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 280:1 (2015) 227–240
  • On sums of Szemerédi–Trotter sets. Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 289 (2015) 300–309
  • On additive shifts of multiplicative subgroups. (with I.V. Vyugin) Mathematical Sbornik, 203:6 (2012) 81–100
  • On sumsets of convex sets. (with T. Schoen) Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 20 (2011) 793–798
  • 4. Zaremba's conjecture, optimal coefficients and applications.

  • On the exceptional set in Littlewood's discrete conjecture. Bull. LMS, 58:5 (2026) 1-10; DOI:10.1112/blms.70359
  • On some results of Rogers. CNT (submitted).
  • On some results of Korobov and Larcher and Zaremba's conjecture. Submitted.
  • Some applications of representation theory to the sum-product phenomenon. Submitted.
  • On Korobov bound concerning Zaremba's conjecture. (with N.G. Moshchevitin and B. Murphy) IMRN, Volume 2026, Issue 6 (2026); DOI:10.1093/imrn/rnag048
  • On a girth-free variant of the Bourgain–Gamburd machine. Finite Fields and Their Applications, 90 (2023) 102225; DOI:10.1016/j.ffa.2023.102225
  • Growth in Chevalley groups relatively to parabolic subgroups and some applications. Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 38:6 (2022) 1945–1973; DOI:10.4171/RMI/1344
  • On growth rate in SL₂(Fp), the affine group and sum-product type implications. (with M. Rudnev) Mathematika, 68:3 (2022) 738–783; DOI:10.1112/mtk.12120
  • Noncommutative methods in Additive Combinatorics and Number Theory. Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 76:6 (462) (2021) 119–180
  • Modular hyperbolas and bilinear forms of Kloosterman sums. Journal of Number Theory, 220 (2021) 182–211; DOI:10.1016/j.jnt.2020.06.014
  • On a modular form of Zaremba's conjecture. (with N.G. Moshchevitin) Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 309:1 (2020) 195–211; DOI:10.2140/pjm.2020.309.195
  • Popular Products and Continued Fractions. (with B. Murphy and N.G. Moshchevitin) Israel Journal of Mathematics, 238 (2020) 807–835; DOI:10.1007/s11856-020-2039-3
  • 5. Miscellaneous.

  • Beyond Threshold Security: Additive Secret Sharing under Hamming-Weight Leakage. (with A. Biswas, J. Hwang, H.K. Maji and X. Ye) 67th IEEE Symposium On Foundations Of Computer Science (submitted).
  • On the random Chowla conjecture. (with O. Klurman and M. Xu) GAFA, 33 (2023) 749–777; DOI:10.1007/s00039-023-00641-y
  • Number of A+B ≠ C solutions in abelian groups and application to counting independent sets in hypergraphs. (with A. Semchankau and D. Shabanov) European Journal of Combinatorics, 100 (2022) 103453; DOI:10.1016/j.ejc.2021.103453
  • On some applications of GCD sums to Arithmetic Combinatorics. Journal of Number Theory, 231 (2022) 433–450; DOI:10.1016/j.jnt.2021.05.011
  • Sets of transfer times with small densities. (with M. Björklund and A. Fish) Journal de l'École polytechnique—Mathématiques, 8 (2021) 311–329; DOI:10.5802/jep.147
  • Quantitative version of Beurling–Helson theorem. (with S.V. Konyagin) Functional Analysis and Its Applications, 49:2 (2015) 39–53
  • On some problems of Euclidean Ramsey theory. Analysis Mathematica, 41 (2015) 1–12; DOI:10.1007/s10476-015
  • Kolmogorov width of discrete linear spaces: an approach to matrix rigidity. (with A. Samorodnitsky and S. Yekhanin) CCC (2015) 1–18
  • On Gowers norms of some functions. Mathematical Notes, 92:4 (2012) 609–627
  • On dynamical systems with slow recurrence time. Mathematical Sbornik, 197:11 (2006) 143–158
  • Teaching (last 10 years)
    • Algebra Honors 2025, Purdue University
    • Galois Theory Honors 2025, 2026, Purdue University
    • An introduction to the sum-product phenomenon 2024, Purdue University
    • Introduction to additive combinatorics 2024, 2026, Purdue University
    • Additive combinatorics 2014-2022, MIPT
    • Modern theory of sum-product 2022, MIPT
    • Additive combinatorics 2014-2022, MIPT
    • Modern theory of sum-product 2022, Saint-Petersburg State University
    • Introduction to additive combinatorics 2021, Saint-Petersburg State University
    • Introduction to additive combinatorics 2019-2021, Steklov Institute
    • Ordinary differential equations 2006-2021, Moscow State University
    • Szemeredi's Theorem and Fourier analysis 2006-2021, Moscow State University
    • Higher Sumsets, Higher Energies, Eigenvalues and Applications to Additive Combinatorics and Number Theory 2015, Henan University
    • Higher sumsets, higher energies, eigenvalues and applications 2015, Chalmers/Goteborg University