Let $\mathbb{P}=\{p_1,p_2,\cdots ,p_i,\cdots \}$ be the set of prime numbers (or more generally a set of pairwise co-prime elements). Let us denote $A_p^{a,b}=\{p^{an+b}m\mid n\in \mathbb{N}\cup \left\{0\right\};m\in \mathbb{N},p\mathrm{does}\mathrm{not}\mathrm{divide}m\}$, where $a\in \mathbb{N},b\in \mathbb{N}\cup \left\{0\right\}$. Then for arbitrary finite set $B$, $B\subset \mathbb{P}$ holds $$d\left(\bigcap _{p_i\in B}{A}_{p_i}^{a_i,b_i}\right)=\prod _{p_i\in B}d\left(A_{p_i}^{a_i,b_i}\right),$$ and $$d\left(A_{p_i}^{a_i,b_i}\right)=\frac{\frac{1}{p_i^{b_i}}\left(1-\frac{1}{p_i}\right)}{1-\frac{1}{p_i^{a_i}}}.$$ If we denote $$A=\left\{\frac{\frac{1}{p^b}\left(1-\frac{1}{p}\right)}{1-\frac{1}{p^a}}\mid p\in \mathbb{P},a\in \mathbb{N},b\in \mathbb{N}\cup \left\{0\right\}\right\},$$ where $\mathbb{P}$ is the set of all prime numbers, then for closure of set $A$ holds $$\mathrm{cl}A=A\cup B\cup \{0,1\},$$ where $B=\left\{\frac{1}{p^b}\left(1-\frac{1}{p}\right)\mid p\in \mathbb{P},b\in \mathbb{N}\cup \left\{0\right\}\right\}$.

It is proved that, if F(x) be a cubic polynomial with integral coefficients having the property that F(n) is equal to a sum of two positive integral cubes for all sufficiently large integers n, then F(x) is identically the sum of two cubes of linear polynomials with integer coefficients that are positive for sufficiently large x. A similar result is proved in the case where F(n) is merely assumed to be a sum of two integral cubes of either sign. It is deduced that analogous propositions are true...

Let G be an additive finite abelian group. For every positive integer ℓ, let $dis{c}_{\ell }\left(G\right)$ be the smallest positive integer t such that each sequence S over G of length |S| ≥ t has a nonempty zero-sum subsequence of length not equal to ℓ. In this paper, we determine $dis{c}_{\ell }\left(G\right)$ for certain finite groups, including cyclic groups, the groups $G=C₂\oplus C_{2m}$ and elementary abelian 2-groups. Following Girard, we define disc(G) as the smallest positive integer t such that every sequence S over G with |S| ≥ t has nonempty zero-sum subsequences...

We study sums and products in a field. Let $F$ be a field with $\mathrm{ch}\left(F\right)\ne 2$, where $\mathrm{ch}\left(F\right)$ is the characteristic of $F$. For any integer $k\ge 4$, we show that any $x\in F$ can be written as $a_1+\cdots +a_k$ with $a_1,\cdots ,a_k\in F$ and $a_1\cdots a_k=1$, and that for any $\alpha \in F\setminus \left\{0\right\}$ we can write every $x\in F$ as $a_1\cdots a_k$ with $a_1,\cdots ,a_k\in F$ and $a_1+\cdots +a_k=\alpha$. We also prove that for any $x\in F$ and $k\in \{2,3,\cdots \}$ there are $a_1,\cdots ,a_{2k}\in F$ such that $a_1+\cdots +a_{2k}=x=a_1\cdots a_{2k}$.