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Subconvexity of Short $k$-Free Exponential Sums

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 17 references
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Let $S_k(\alpha;K)$ denote the exponential sum over $k$-free integers in the short interval $(N-K,N]$. For $s>0$, we prove essentially tight bounds on the $s$-th moments of $S_k(\alpha;K)$ whenever $K \gg N^{\theta_{k,s}+\epsilon}$ for some $\theta_{k,s}<1/2$. As an immediate consequence, we obtain a lower bound for the $L^1$-mean of the M\"obius-twisted exponential sum over short intervals of length at least $N^{0.49685}$. Moreover, we show that further improvements on all of these results would follow immediately from improvements to an $\ell^2$-estimate involving the M\"obius function.

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