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Exponential Sums and Riesz energies

Number Theory 2017-09-05 v3 Mathematical Physics Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

We bound an exponential sum that appears in the study of irregularities of distribution (the low-frequency Fourier energy of the sum of several Dirac measures) by geometric quantities: a special case is that for all {x1,,xN}T2\left\{ x_1, \dots, x_N\right\} \subset \mathbb{T}^2, X1X \geq 1 and a universal c>0c>0 i,j=1NX21+X4xixj4kZ2kXn=1Ne2πik,xn2i,j=1NX2ecX2xixj2. \sum_{i,j=1}^{N}{ \frac{X^2}{1 + X^4 \|x_i -x_j\|^4}} \lesssim \sum_{k \in \mathbb{Z}^2 \atop \|k\| \leq X}{ \left| \sum_{n=1}^{N}{ e^{2 \pi i \left\langle k, x_n \right\rangle}}\right|^2} \lesssim \sum_{i,j=1}^{N}{ X^2 e^{-c X^2\|x_i -x_j\|^2}}. Since this exponential sum is intimately tied to rather subtle distribution properties of the points, we obtain nonlocal structural statements for near-minimizers of the Riesz-type energy. In the regime XN1/2X \gtrsim N^{1/2} both upper and lower bound match for maximally-separated point sets satisfying xixjN1/2\|x_i -x_j\| \gtrsim N^{-1/2}.

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@article{arxiv.1707.05766,
  title  = {Exponential Sums and Riesz energies},
  author = {Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05766},
  year   = {2017}
}

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to appear in Journal of Number Theory

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