MINOR ARC MOMENTS OF WEYL SUMS

We obtain an improved bound for the 2k-th moment of a degree k Weyl sum, restricted to a set of minor arcs, when k is small. We then present some applications of this bound to some Diophantine problems, including a case of the Waring–Goldbach problem, and a particular family of Diophantine equations defined as the sum of a norm form and a diagonal form.

On the ergodicity of Weyl sum cocycles

We present the quadratic Weyl sums $\sum _{k=0}^{n-1} e^{2\pi i(k^2\theta +2kx)}$ with θ,x∈[0,1) as cocycles over a measure-preserving transformation on the two-dimensional torus. We show then that these cocycles are not coboundaries for every irrational θ∈[0,1), and that for a dense Gδ set of θ∈[0,1) the corresponding skew product is ergodic. For each of those θ, there exists a dense Gδ set of full measure of x∈[0,1) for which the sequence $\sum _{k=0}^{n-1} e^{2\pi i(k^2\theta +2kx)}$, n=1,2,… , is dense in $\mathbb {C}$.

TEMPORAL QUANTUM CHAOS

We study the long-time behavior of bound quantum systems whose classical dynamics is chaotic and put forward two conjectures. Conjecture A states that the autocorrelation function C(t)=<Ψ(0)|Ψ(t)> of a delocalized initial state |Ψ(0)> shows characteristic fluctuations, which we identify with a universal signature of temporal quantum chaos. For example, for the (appropriately normalized) value distribution of S~|C(t)| we predict the distribution P(S)=(π/2)Se-πS2/4. Conjecture B gives the best possible upper bound for a generalized Weyl sum and is related to the extremely large recurrence times in temporal quantum chaos. Numerical tests carried out for numerous chaotic systems confirm nicely the two conjectures and thus provide strong evidence for temporal quantum chaos.

On a θ-Weyl sum

We treat the sum , where α and γ are real with α positive. This sum was treated first by Hardy and Littlewood [4], and after them, by Behnke [1] and [2], Mordell [9], Wilton [11] and others. The reader will find its history in [7] and in the comments of the Collected Papers [4]. Here we show that the sum can be expressed explicitly, together with an error term O(N1/2), using the regular continued fraction expansion of α. As the statements have complications we will divide them into two theorems. In the followings all letters except ϑ, i, σ, ζ, χ and those in 3° are real, N is a positive real, and always k, n, a, A, B, C, D and E denote integers. The author expresses his thanks to Professor Tikao Tatuzawa and Professor Tomio Kubota for their encouragements.