We study linear random walks on the torus and show a quantitative equidistribution statement, under the assumption that the Zariski closure of the acting group is semisimple.

We demonstrate the existence of K-multimagic squares of order N consisting of $N^2$ distinct integers whenever $N> 2K(K+1)$. This improves our earlier result [D. Flores, ‘A circle method approach to K-multimagic squares’, preprint (2024), arXiv:2406.08161] in which we only required $N+1$ distinct integers. Additionally, we present a direct method by which our analysis of the magic square system may be used to show the existence of $N \times N$ magic squares consisting of distinct kth powers when

$$ \begin{align*}N> \begin{cases} 2^{k+1} & \text{if}\ 2 \leqslant k \leqslant 4, \\ 2 \lceil k(\log k + 4.20032) \rceil & \text{if}\ k \geqslant 5, \end{cases}\end{align*} $$

improving on a recent result by Rome and Yamagishi [‘On the existence of magic squares of powers’, preprint (2024), arxiv:2406.09364].

We establish bounds for exponential sums twisted by generalized Möbius functions and their convolutions. As an application, we prove asymptotic formulas for certain weighted chromatic partitions by using the Hardy–Littlewood circle method. Lastly, we provide an explicit formula relating the contributions from the major arcs with a sum over the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function.

We consider spectral projectors associated to the Euclidean Laplacian on the two-dimensional torus, in the case where the spectral window is narrow. Bounds for their L2 to Lp operator norm are derived, extending the classical result of Sogge; a new question on the convolution kernel of the projector is introduced. The methods employed include $\ell^2$ decoupling, small cap decoupling and estimates of exponential sums.

We generalise and improve some recent bounds for additive energies of modular roots. Our arguments use a variety of techniques, including those from additive combinatorics, algebraic number theory and the geometry of numbers. We give applications of these results to new bounds on correlations between Salié sums and to a new equidistribution estimate for the set of modular roots of primes.

We prove convergence in norm and pointwise almost everywhere on $L^p$, $p\in (1,\infty )$, for certain multi-parameter polynomial ergodic averages by establishing the corresponding multi-parameter maximal and oscillation inequalities. Our result, in particular, gives an affirmative answer to a multi-parameter variant of the Bellow–Furstenberg problem. This paper is also the first systematic treatment of multi-parameter oscillation semi-norms which allows an efficient handling of multi-parameter pointwise convergence problems with arithmetic features. The methods of proof of our main result develop estimates for multi-parameter exponential sums, as well as introduce new ideas from the so-called multi-parameter circle method in the context of the geometry of backwards Newton diagrams that are dictated by the shape of the polynomials defining our ergodic averages.

We prove discrete restriction estimates for a broad class of hypersurfaces arising in seminal work of Birch. To do so, we use a variant of Bourgain’s arithmetic version of the Tomas–Stein method and Magyar’s decomposition of the Fourier transform of the indicator function of the integer points on a hypersurface.

We obtain new bounds on short Weil sums over small multiplicative subgroups of prime finite fields which remain nontrivial in the range the classical Weil bound is already trivial. The method we use is a blend of techniques coming from algebraic geometry and additive combinatorics.

Let $[t]$ be the integral part of the real number t and let $\mathbb {1}_{{\mathbb P}}$ be the characteristic function of the primes. Denote by $\pi _{\mathcal {S}}(x)$ the number of primes in the floor function set $\mathcal {S}(x) := \{[{x}/{n}] : 1\leqslant n\leqslant x\}$ and by $S_{\mathbb {1}_{{\mathbb P}}}(x)$ the number of primes in the sequence $\{[{x}/{n}]\}_{n\geqslant 1}$. Improving a result of Heyman [‘Primes in floor function sets’, Integers 22 (2022), Article no. A59], we show

$$ \begin{align*} \pi_{\mathcal{S}}(x) = \int_2^{\sqrt{x}} \frac{d t}{\log t} + \int_2^{\sqrt{x}} \frac{d t}{\log(x/t)} + O(\sqrt{x}\,\mathrm{e}^{-c(\log x)^{3/5}(\log\log x)^{-1/5}}) \quad\mbox{and}\quad S_{\mathbb{1}_{{\mathbb P}}}(x) = C_{\mathbb{1}_{{\mathbb P}}} x + O_{\varepsilon}(x^{9/19+\varepsilon}) \end{align*} $$

for $x\to \infty $, where $C_{\mathbb {1}_{{\mathbb P}}} := \sum _{p} {1}/{p(p+1)}$, $c>0$ is a positive constant and $\varepsilon $ is an arbitrarily small positive number.

We investigate norms of spectral projectors on thin spherical shells for the Laplacian on tori. This is closely related to the boundedness of resolvents of the Laplacian and the boundedness of $L^{p}$ norms of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian. We formulate a conjecture and partially prove it.

We consider sums involving the divisor function over nonhomogeneous ( $\beta \neq 0$ ) Beatty sequences $ \mathcal {B}_{\alpha ,\beta }:=\{[\alpha n+\beta ]\}_{n=1}^{\infty } $ and show that

$$ \begin{align*} \sum_{n\leq N,\ n\in\mathcal{B}_{\alpha,\beta}}d(n) =\alpha^{-1}\sum_{m\leq N}d(m) +O(N^{1-1/(\tau+1)+\varepsilon}), \end{align*} $$

where N is a sufficiently large integer, $\alpha $ is of finite type $\tau $ and $\beta \neq 0$ . Previously, such estimates were only obtained for homogeneous Beatty sequences or for almost all $\alpha $ .

Recently E. Bombieri and N. M. Katz (2010) demonstrated that several well-known results about the distribution of values of linear recurrence sequences lead to interesting statements for Frobenius traces of algebraic curves. Here we continue this line of study and establish the Möbius randomness law quantitatively for the normalised form of Frobenius traces.

We prove that sums of length about $q^{3/2}$ of Hecke eigenvalues of automorphic forms on $\operatorname{SL}_{3}(\mathbf{Z})$ do not correlate with $q$-periodic functions with bounded Fourier transform. This generalizes the earlier results of Munshi and Holowinsky–Nelson, corresponding to multiplicative Dirichlet characters, and applies, in particular, to trace functions of small conductor modulo primes.

We prove an upper bound on the log canonical threshold of a hypersurface that satisfies a certain power condition and use it to prove several generalizations of Igusa’s conjecture on exponential sums, with the log canonical threshold in the exponent of the estimates. We show that this covers optimally all situations of the conjectures for nonrational singularities by comparing the log canonical threshold with a local notion of the motivic oscillation index.

We prove a lower bound for the large sieve with square moduli.

By combining classical techniques together with two novel asymptotic identities derived in recent work by Lenells and one of the authors, we analyse certain single sums of Riemann-zeta type. In addition, we analyse Euler-Zagier double exponential sums for particular values of Re{u} and Re{v} and for a variety of sets of summation, as well as particular cases of Mordell-Tornheim double sums.

In this note we give a characterization of $\ell ^{p}\times \cdots \times \ell ^{p}\rightarrow \ell ^{q}$ boundedness of maximal operators associated with multilinear convolution averages over spheres in $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$.

We generalize the work of Sarnak and Tsimerman to twisted sums of Kloosterman sums and thus give evidence towards the twisted Linnik–Selberg conjecture.

We study Piatetski-Shapiro sequences $(\lfloor n^{c}\rfloor )_{n}$ modulo $m$, for non-integer $c>1$ and positive $m$, and we are particularly interested in subword occurrences in those sequences. We prove that each block $\in \{0,1\}^{k}$ of length $k<c+1$ occurs as a subword with the frequency $2^{-k}$, while there are always blocks that do not occur. In particular, those sequences are not normal. For $1<c<2$, we estimate the number of subwords from above and below, yielding the fact that our sequences are deterministic and not morphic. Finally, using the Daboussi–Kátai criterion, we prove that the sequence $\lfloor n^{c}\rfloor$ modulo $m$ is asymptotically orthogonal to multiplicative functions bounded by 1 and with mean value 0.