Estimates on polynomial exponential sums (Q980502)

Let \(f(x)=a_1x^{k_1}+\cdots+a_rx^{k_r}\in \mathbb{Z}[x]\) be a polynomial of degree \(d\), and let \(q\) be a positive integer. Assume \((a_1,\cdots,a_r,q)=1\), and define \(e_q(x)=e^{2\pi i \frac{x}{q}}\). This paper estimates exponential sums of the form \[ \sum_{1\leq x< q;~(x,q)=1}e_q(f(x)) \quad \text{and}\quad \sum_{1\leq x\leq q}e_q(f(x)), \] and gives some interesting results. The proof of main theorems relies on earlier work in the case of prime modulus.