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Sign changes of Kloosterman sums with almost prime moduli

Number Theory 2014-06-06 v3

Abstract

We prove that the Kloosterman sum S(1,1;c)S(1,1;c) can change sign infinitely often as cc runs over squarefree moduli with at most 10 prime factors, which improves the previous results of E. Fouvry and Ph. Michel, J. Sivak-Fischler and K. Matom\"{a}ki, replacing 10 by 23, 18 and 15, respectively. The method combines the Selberg sieve, equidistribution of Kloosterman sums and spectral theory of automorphic forms.

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@article{arxiv.1310.8623,
  title  = {Sign changes of Kloosterman sums with almost prime moduli},
  author = {Ping Xi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.8623},
  year   = {2014}
}

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18 pages, to appear in Monatshefte f\"ur Mathematik