Bilinear forms in Weyl sums for modular square roots and applications

We survey the potential for progress in additive number theory arising from recent advances concerning major arc bounds associated with mean value estimates for smooth Weyl sums. We focus attention on the problem of representing large positive integers as sums of a square and a number of $k$-th powers. We show that such representations exist when the number of $k$-th powers is at least $\lfloor c_0k\rfloor +2$, where $c_0=2.136294\ldots $. By developing an abstract framework ...

Let $k \geq 2$ and $N$ be positive integers and let $\chi$ be a Dirichlet character modulo $N$. Let $f(z)$ be a modular form in $M_k(\Gamma_0(N),\chi)$. Then we have a unique decomposition $f(z)=E_f(z)+S_f(z)$, where $E_f(z) \in E_k(\Gamma_0(N),\chi)$ and $S_f(z) \in S_k(\Gamma_0(N),\chi)$. In this paper we give an explicit formula for $E_f(z)$ in terms of Eisenstein series. Then we apply our result to certain families of eta quotients and to representations of positive integ...

In this paper, we improve the error term in the prime geodesic theorem for the Picard manifold $ \mathrm{PSL}_2 (\mathbb{Z} {[i]}) \backslash \mathbb{H}^3 $. Instead of $ \mathrm{PSL}_2 (\mathbb{Z} {[i]}) \backslash \mathbb{H}^3 $, we establish a spectral large sieve inequality for symmetric squares over $\mathrm{PSL}_2 (\mathbb{Z} {[i]}) \backslash \mathrm{PSL}_2 (\mathbb{C}) $. This enables us to improve the bound $ O (T^{3+2/3+\varepsilon}) $ of Balkanova and Frolenkov int...

Given an integral indefinite binary Hermitian form f over an imaginary quadratic number field, we give a precise asymptotic equivalent to the number of nonequivalent representations, satisfying some congruence properties, of the rational integers with absolute value at most s by f, as s tends to infinity.

We introduce a smooth variance sum associated to a pair of positive definite symmetric integral matrices $A_{m\times m}$ and $B_{n\times n}$, where $m\geq n$. By using the oscillator representation, we give a formula for this variance sum in terms of a smooth sum over the square of a functional evaluated on the $B$-th Fourier coefficients of the vector valued holomorphic Siegel modular forms which are Hecke eigenforms and obtained by the theta transfer from $O_{A_{m\times m}}...

In this paper we study the distribution of squares modulo a square-free number $q$. We also look at inverse questions for the large sieve in the distribution aspect and we make improvements on existing results on the distribution of $s$-tuples of reduced residues.

Sarnak obtained the asymptotic formula of the sum of the class numbers of indefinite binary quadratic forms from the prime geodesic theorem for the modular group. In the present paper, we show several asymptotic formulas of partial sums of the class numbers by using the prime geodesic theorems for the congruence subgroups of the modular group.

We study the moments of the function that counts the number of representations of an integer as sums of two prime squares. We refine some of the previous arguments and apply Selberg sieve to get an unconditional upper bound for all moments. We also prove a lower bound for all moments conditional on some generalization of Green-Tao theorem on Linear Equations in primes. More precisely, for fifth moment and onward, we get the expected order of magnitude lower and upper bounds, ...

The main results extend to sums over primes in a short interval earlier estimates by the author for "long" Weyl sums over primes.

We consider quadratic Weyl sums $S_N(x;\alpha,\beta)=\sum_{n=1}^N \exp\!\left[2\pi i\left( \left(\tfrac{1}{2}n^2+\beta n\right)\!x+\alpha n\right)\right]$ for $(\alpha,\beta)\in\mathbb{Q}^2$, where $x\in\mathbb{R}$ is randomly distributed according to a probability measure absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We prove that the limiting distribution in the complex plane of $\frac{1}{\sqrt{N}}S_N(x;\alpha,\beta)$ as $N\to\infty$ is either heavy tailed or ...