English

Kloosterman sums with twice-differentiable functions

Number Theory 2023-08-28 v1

Abstract

We bound Kloosterman-like sums of the shape n=1Nexp(2πi(xf(n)+yf(n)1)/p), \sum_{n=1}^N \exp(2\pi i (x \lfloor f(n)\rfloor+ y \lfloor f(n)\rfloor^{-1})/p), with integers parts of a real-valued, twice-differentiable function ff is satisfying a certain limit condition on ff'', and f(n)1\lfloor f(n)\rfloor^{-1} is meaning inversion modulo~pp. As an immediate application, we obtain results concerning the distribution of modular inverses inverses f(n)1(modp)\lfloor f(n)\rfloor^{-1} \pmod{p}. The results apply, in particular, to Piatetski-Shapiro sequences tc \lfloor t^c\rfloor with c(1,43)c\in(1,\frac{4}{3}). The proof is an adaptation of an argument used by Banks and the first named author in a series of papers from 2006 to 2009.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1902.05989,
  title  = {Kloosterman sums with twice-differentiable functions},
  author = {Igor E. Shparlinski and Marc Technau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05989},
  year   = {2023}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-23T07:42:23.276Z