DiophantineMethods for Exponential Sums, and Exponential Sums for Diophantine Problems
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Recent developments in the theory and application of the HardyLittlewood method are discussed, concentrating on aspects associated with diagonal diophantine problems. Recent efficient differencing methods for estimating mean values of exponential sums are described first, concentrating on developments involving smooth Weyl sums. Next, arithmetic variants of classical inequalities of Bessel and Cauchy-Schwarz are discussed. Finally, some emerging connections between the circle method and arithmetic geometry are mentioned. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11P55, 11L07, 11P05, 11D72, 14G05.
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