An Integral Mean Value Theorem for Weyl Sums over Broken Arcs
Abstract
In this article, we research the mean value of integral of exponential sum , where is a short interval whose length is , and the broken arc is a subset of a following minor arcs which has measure at least . By setting is a sufficiently large number, is be sufficiently large in terms of . When and we set the following estimate: We can find this estimate moving beyond the even-odd restriction of powers. To get this bound, we first set a strong estimate for almost by Diophantine approximation and Vinogradov's main value theorem. Then, combining this result, we construct a refined Weyl differencing argument by partitioning the differences step into large and small range, which significantly outperforms the classical one. By the version of probability, we can calculate the multiplicity of each sum. Put them together and we can complete the proof.
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@article{arxiv.2608.04948,
title = {An Integral Mean Value Theorem for Weyl Sums over Broken Arcs},
author = {YaoJie Guo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04948},
year = {2026}
}