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Trilinear Kloosterman fractions I: partially fixed moduli and unbalanced convolutions

Number Theory 2026-04-29 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we improve on Fouvry and Radziwi{\l}{\l}'s results on unbalanced convolutions. In particular, we find that if (αm)(\alpha_m) and (βn)(\beta_n) are sequences supported on mMm\sim M and nMn\sim M where β\beta is equidistributed for small moduli, then \begin{gather*}\sum_{q\sim Q}\left|\mathop{\sum\sum}_{\substack{n\sim N,m\sim M \\ mn\equiv a\pmod q}}\alpha_m\beta_n-\frac{1}{\phi(q)}\mathop{\sum\sum}_{\substack{n\sim N,m\sim M \\ (mn,q)=1}}\alpha_m\beta_n\right|\ll \frac{X}{\log^A X}, \end{gather*} as long as exp((logx)ε)NQ11/12X17/36ε\exp((\log x)^{\varepsilon}) \leq N \leq Q^{-11/12} X^{17/36-\varepsilon} with QX1/2+1/66δQ\leq X^{1/2+1/66-\delta}, along with wider bounds for NN if QX4589ϵQ\leq X^{\frac{45}{89}-\epsilon}. The former improves the allowable range of NN, while the latter improves the range of QQ. To prove these new bounds, we improve Bettin and Chandee's famous result on trilinear forms with Kloosterman fractions in the case where the denominator has a fixed factor.

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@article{arxiv.2604.25177,
  title  = {Trilinear Kloosterman fractions I: partially fixed moduli and unbalanced convolutions},
  author = {Thomas Wright},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.25177},
  year   = {2026}
}