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The large sieve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

P. X. Gallagher
P. X. Gallagher
Affiliation:
Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, 27, New York, U.S.A.
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1. The purpose of this paper is to give simple proofs for some recent versions of Linnik's large sieve, and some applications.

The first theme of the large sieve is that an arbitrary set of Z integers in an interval of length N must be well distributed among most of the residue classes modulo p, for most small primes p, unless Z is small compared with N. Following improvements on Linnik's original result [1] by Rényi [2] and by Roth [3], Bombieri [4] recently proved the following inequality: Denote by Z(a, p) the number of integers in the set which are congruent to a modulo p.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , June 1967 , pp. 14 - 20
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Copyright © University College London 1967

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