Equidistribution of generalized Dedekind sums and exponential sums (Q2637450): Difference between revisions

In analytic number theory, Dedekind sums, named after Richard Dedekind, are sums of products of a sawtooth function \((()):\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\): \[ ((x))=\begin{cases} 0&\text{if \(x\in \mathbb{Z}\)} \\ x-\lfloor x\rfloor -\frac{1}{2},&\text{if \(x\notin \mathbb{Z}\)}\end{cases} \] where \(\lfloor x\rfloor \)\ denotes greatest integer function. Therefore, the Dedekind sums are defined by \[ s(h,k)=\sum_{y\mod k}((\tfrac{y}{k}))((\tfrac{yh}{k})) \] where \(h,k\in \mathbb{Z}\) with \(k>0\) and \((h,k)=1\). These sums are related to trigonometric functions, Bernoulli functions, Euler functions, the family of zeta functions (the Hurwitz zeta function, the Riemann zeta function), Todd power series, \(p\)-adic integrals, and other special functions. Dedekind introduced the sum \(s(h,k)\) to express the functional equation of the Dedekind \(\eta\) function. Recently the Dedekind sums have been studied in many problems of topology, in the family of zeta functions and \(L\)-series. In this paper the authors recover a result on equidistribution of the classical Dedekind sums.