Energy bounds for modular roots and their applications

Bryce Kerr, Ilya D. Shkredov, Igor E. Shparlinski, Alexandru Zaharescu

Published: 2021/3/17

Abstract

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 {\it Sali{\'e}} sums and to a new equidistribution estimate for the set of modular roots of primes.