The average length of a trajectory in a certain billiard in a flat two-torus.
For an arbitrary (not totally real) number field of degree , we ask how many perfect powers of algebraic integers in exist, such that for each embedding of into the complex field. ( a large real parameter, a fixed integer, and for any complex .) This quantity is evaluated asymptotically in the form , with sharp estimates for the remainder . The argument uses techniques from lattice point theory along with W. Schmidt’s multivariate extension of K.F. Roth’s result on the approximation...
We include several results providing bounds for an interval on the hyperbola containing lattice points.
1. Summary. In a sequence of three papers we study the circle problem and its generalization involving the logarithmic mean. Most of the deeper results in this area depend on estimates of exponential sums. For the circle problem itself Chen has carried out such estimates using three two-dimensional Weyl steps with complicated techniques. We make the same Weyl steps but our approach is simpler and clearer. Crucial is a good understanding of the Hessian determinant that appears and a simple...