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Fractional parts of Dedekind sums

Number Theory 2015-05-19 v2

Abstract

Using a recent improvement by Bettin and Chandee to a bound of Duke, Friedlander and Iwaniec~(1997) on double exponential sums with Kloosterman fractions, we establish a uniformity of distribution result for the fractional parts of Dedekind sums s(m,n)s(m,n) with mm and nn running over rather general sets. Our result extends earlier work of Myerson (1988) and Vardi (1987). Using different techniques, we also study the least denominator of the collection of Dedekind sums {s(m,n):m(Z/nZ)}\bigl\{s(m,n):m\in(\mathbb Z/n \mathbb Z)^*\bigr\} on average for n[1,N]n\in[1,N].

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@article{arxiv.1411.1820,
  title  = {Fractional parts of Dedekind sums},
  author = {William D. Banks and Igor E. Shparlinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.1820},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Using recent results of S. Bettin and V. Chandee, arXiv 1502.00769, we have improved some of our results