The large sieve is used to estimate the density of quadratic polynomials Q∈ℤ[x], such that there exists an odd degree polynomial defined over ℤ which has resultant ±1 with Q. Given a monic polynomial R∈ℤ[x] of odd degree, this is used to show that for almost all quadratic polynomials Q∈ℤ[x], there exists a prime p such that Q and R share a common root in 𝔽 ¯ p . Using recent work of Landesman, an application to the average size of the odd part of the class group of quadratic number fields is also given.

Metaplectic cusp forms and the large sieve

Alfréd Rényi, the founding director of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was the first mathematician who proved a density theorem for the zeros of Dirichlet’s 𝐿-functions with variable moduli. This was based on a refinement of the large sieve of Linnik, developed by Rényi himself. He used this to show a weaker form of the binary Goldbach conjecture. His density theorem was the first forerunner of the famous Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem. We give a simple alternative proof of a weaker form of the Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem, based only on classical facts about 𝐿-functions (including Siegel’s theorem) and a simple but ingenious idea of Halász, but without using any form of the large sieve.

Abstract Let be the number of integral zeros of . Works of Hooley and Heath‐Brown imply , if one assumes automorphy and grand Riemann hypothesis for certain Hasse–Weil ‐functions. Assuming instead a natural large sieve inequality, we recover the same bound on . This is part of a more general statement, for diagonal cubic forms in variables, where we allow approximations to Hasse–Weil ‐functions.

Abstract We develop a generalisation of the square sieve of Heath-Brown and use it to give an alternate proof of one of the large sieve inequalities in our previous paper [‘A large sieve inequality for characters to quadratic moduli’, Preprint, https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~ccorrigan/preprint6.pdf].

Donoho-Logan large sieve principles for the wavelet transform

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Log-free zero density estimates for automorphic L-functions

The aim of this paper is to extend two results from the Paley–Wiener setting to more general model spaces. The first one is an analogue of the oversampling Shannon sampling formula. The second one is a version of the Donoho–Logan Large Sieve Theorem which is a quantitative estimate of the embedding of the Paley–Wiener space into an \(L^2(\mathbb{R},\mu)\) space.

Abstract We study how often exceptional configurations of irreducible polynomials over finite fields occur in the context of prime number races and Chebyshev's bias. In particular, we show that three types of biases, which we call “complete bias,” “lower order bias,” and “reversed bias,” occur with probability going to zero among the family of all squarefree monic polynomials of a given degree in as , a power of a fixed prime, goes to infinity. The bounds given extend a previous result of Kowalski, who studied a similar question along particular one‐parameter families of reducible polynomials. The tools used are the large sieve for Frobenius developed by Kowalski, an improvement of it due to Perret–Gentil and considerations from the theory of linear recurrence sequences and arithmetic geometry.

Abstract We make explicit Bombieri’s refinement of Gallagher’s log-free “large sieve density estimate near σ = 1 {\sigma=1} ” for Dirichlet L-functions. We use this estimate and recent work of Green to prove that if N ≥ 2 {N\geq 2} is an integer, A ⊆ { 1 , … , N } {A\subseteq\{1,\ldots,N\}} , and for all primes p no two elements in A differ by p - 1 {p-1} , then | A | ≪ N 1 - 10 - 18 {|A|\ll N^{1-10^{-18}}} . This strengthens a theorem of Sárközy.

The large sieve revisited

Abstract We show that sequences of the form $\alpha n^{\theta } \pmod {1}$ with $\alpha> 0$ and $0 < \theta < \tfrac {43}{117} = \tfrac {1}{3} + 0.0341 \ldots $ have Poissonian pair correlation. This improves upon the previous result by Lutsko, Sourmelidis, and Technau, where this was established for $\alpha> 0$ and $0 < \theta < \tfrac {14}{41} = \tfrac {1}{3} + 0.0081 \ldots $. We reduce the problem of establishing Poissonian pair correlation to a counting problem using a form of amplification and the Bombieri–Iwaniec double large sieve. The counting problem is then resolved non-optimally by appealing to the bounds of Robert–Sargos and (Fouvry–Iwaniec–)Cao–Zhai. The exponent $\theta = \tfrac {2}{5}$ is the limit of our approach.

abstract: The arithmetic properties of the ordinary partition function $p(n)$ have been the topic of intensive study for the past century. Ramanujan proved that there are linear congruences of the form $p(\ell n+\beta)\equiv 0$ $({\rm mod}\;\ell)$ for the primes $\ell=5,7,11$, and it is known that there are no others of this form. On the other hand, for every prime $\ell\geq 5$ there are infinitely many examples of congruences of the form $p(\ell Q^m n+\beta)\equiv 0$ $({\rm mod}\;\ell)$ where $Q\geq 5$ is prime and $m\geq 3$. This leaves open the question of the existence of such congruences when $m=1$ or $m=2$ (no examples in these cases are known). We prove in a precise sense that such congruences, if they exist, are exceedingly scarce. Our methods involve a careful study of modular forms of half integral weight on the full modular group which are related to the partition function. Among many other tools, we use work of Radu which describes expansions of such modular forms along square classes at cusps of the modular curve $X(\ell Q)$, Galois representations and the arithmetic large sieve.

Abstract In the present paper, the author adopts a pretentious approach and recovers an estimate obtained by Linnik for the sums of the von Mangoldt function Λ on arithmetic progressions. It is the analogue of an estimate that Linnik established in his attempt to prove his celebrated theorem concerning the size of the smallest prime number of an arithmetic progression. Our work builds on ideas coming from the pretentious large sieve of Granville, Harper, and Soundararajan and it also borrows insights from the treatment of Koukoulopoulos on multiplicative functions with small averages.

Abstract We improve on the spectral large sieve inequality for symmetric-squares. We also prove a lower bound showing that the most optimistic upper bound is not true for this family.

Three-dimensional exponential sums under constant perturbation

The large sieve type estimates of true order of magnitude for character sums to prime moduli are established. The main result holds for coefficients supported on numbers which have no small prime divisors.

Abstract The elementary method of Balog and Ruzsa and the large sieve of Linnik are utilized to investigate the behaviour of the norm of an exponential sum over the primes. A new proof of a lower bound due to Vaughan for the norm of an exponential sum formed with the von Mangoldt function is furnished.

In this paper, we establish large sieve inequalities for power moduli in imaginary quadratic number fields, extending earlier work of Baier and Bansal [S. Baier and A. Bansal, The large sieve with power moduli for [Formula: see text], Int. J. Number Theory 14 (10) (2018) 2737–2756; Large sieve with sparse sets of moduli for [Formula: see text], Acta Arith. 196 (1) (2020) 17–34] for the Gaussian field.