Multiple exponential and character sums with monomials

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Abstract: We obtain new bounds of multivariate exponential sums with monomials, when the variables run over rather short intervals. Furthermore, we use the same method to derive estimates on similar sums with multiplicative characters to which previously known methods do not apply. In particular, in the multiplicative characters modulo a prime p we break the barrier of p1/4 for ranges of individual variables.


Let \(p\) be a prime number, and let \(n\geq 2\) be a fixed integer. Let \({\boldsymbol \rho}=(\rho_1,\ldots,\rho_n)\) be a vector of \(n\) complex-valued weights with NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \left|\rho_j(x)\right|\leq 1,\qquad x\in \mathbb{R}, \qquad j=1,\cdots,n, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and let \({\mathbf e}\) be an integer vector with non-zero components NEWLINE\[NEWLINE {\mathbf e}=(e_1,\ldots,e_n)\in \mathbb{Z}^n \quad\text{and}\quad e_1\cdots e_n\neq 0. NEWLINE\]NEWLINE Let \(\lambda\in \mathbb{Z}\), and let \(\mathcal{B}\) be an \(n\)-dimensional cube NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \mathcal{B}=\left[k_1+1, k_1+h\right]\times\cdots\times\left[k_n+1, k_n+h\right] NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with \(h<p\) and some integers \(k_1,\ldots,k_n\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe multiple exponential sums with monomials are defined by NEWLINE\[NEWLINE S_p(\lambda,{\boldsymbol \rho},{\mathbf e}; \mathcal{B})=\mathop{\sum_{(x_1,\ldots,x_n)\in \mathcal{B}}}_{x_1\cdots x_n\not\equiv 0 (\bmod p)}\rho_1(x_1)\cdots\rho_n(x_n){\mathbf e}_p\left(\lambda x_1^{e_1}\cdots x_n^{e_n}\right), NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \({\mathbf e}_p(z)=\exp(2\pi iz/p)\). For multiplicative character \(\chi\) modulo \(p\), we denote NEWLINE\[NEWLINE T_p\left(\lambda,\chi, {\boldsymbol \rho},{\mathbf e}; \mathcal{B}\right)=\mathop{\sum_{(x_1,\ldots,x_n)\in \mathcal{B}}}_{x_1\cdots x_n\not\equiv 0 (\bmod p)}\rho_1(x_1)\cdots\rho_n(x_n)\chi\left(x_1^{e_1}\cdots x_n^{e_n}+\lambda\right). NEWLINE\]NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe author obtains new bounds for \(S_p(\lambda,{\boldsymbol \rho},{\mathbf e}; \mathcal{B})\) and \(T_p\left(\lambda,\chi, {\boldsymbol \rho},{\mathbf e}; \mathcal{B}\right)\), when the variables run over rather short intervals. In particular for \(T_p\left(\lambda,\chi, {\boldsymbol \rho},{\mathbf e}; \mathcal{B}\right)\), the results given in the paper break the barrier of \(p^{1/4}\) for ranges of individual variables.











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