A sum of exponentials of the form $f\left(x\right)=exp\left(2\pi i{N}_{1}x\right)+exp\left(2\pi i{N}_{2}x\right)+\cdots +exp\left(2\pi i{N}_{m}x\right)$, where the $N_k$ are distinct integers is called an idempotent trigonometric polynomial (because the convolution of $f$ with itself is $f$) or, simply, an idempotent. We show that for every $p\>1,$ and every set $E$ of the torus $𝕋=ℝ/\mathbb{Z}$ with $\left|E\right|\>0,$ there are idempotents concentrated on $E$ in the $L^p$ sense. More precisely, for each $p\>1,$ there is an explicitly calculated constant $C_p\>0$ so that for each $E$ with $\left|E\right|\>0$ and $ϵ\>0$ one can find an idempotent $f$ such that the ratio ${\left({\int }_E{\left|f\right|}^p/{\int }_{𝕋}{\left|f\right|}^p\right)}^{1/p}$ is greater than $C_p-ϵ$. This is in fact...

For positive integers m and N, we estimate the rational exponential sums with denominator m over the reductions modulo m of elements of the set ℱ(N) = {s/r : r,s ∈ ℤ, gcd(r,s) = 1, N ≥ r > s ≥ 1} of Farey fractions of order N (only fractions s/r with gcd(r,m) = 1 are considered).