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A note on trigonometric sums in several variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. W. K. Odoni
R. W. K. Odoni
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Department of Mathematics, University of Exeter
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In [3, 4] we showed how the use of a random-walk analogue can be made to yield non-trivial information about the behaviour of certain trigonometric sums in one variable. Our aim here is to show how our method can be adapted to yield similar results for a broad class of trigonometric sums in several variables. Let

be a polynomial in v independent variables with integral coefficients. We choose integers n ≥ 0, d ≥ 1 and p ≥ 2 with p prime, and assume that f(x) has total degree ≤ d + 1. We shall consider the problem of obtaining non-trivial upper bounds for the absolute value of sums of the type

where P = {1, 2, …, p} and f is non-constant.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , March 1986 , pp. 189 - 193
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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