Mixed moments of arithmetic functions and Kloosterman sums
Abstract
We extend the Nair--Tenenbaum estimates for short sums of nonnegative arithmetic functions at polynomial values to mixed moments involving Kloosterman sums. Combining these estimates with lower bounds obtained by refining the method of Fouvry and Michel, we prove that, for every fixed nonzero integer a and fixed z,ν>0, ∑n≤ xzω(n) |Kl(a;n)|νasympa,z,ν x(log x)zs(ν)−1, where ω(n) counts distinct prime divisors and s(ν) is the ν-th absolute moment of the Sato--Tate measure. We also obtain upper bounds for mixed absolute moments of Hecke eigenvalues and Kloosterman sums, determine the frequency of large Kloosterman values on a logarithmic scale, and establish the order of magnitude predicted by Li and Sarnak for the diagonal second moment of classical Kloosterman sums. We obtain matching bounds for the smoothed spectral counting variance on the modular surface in a logarithmic range and the lower bound ∫T2TS(t)2 dt≫ T2/log T, where S(t) is the remainder in Weyl's law.
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BibTeX
@misc{jiang2026mixed,
title = {{Mixed moments of arithmetic functions and Kloosterman sums}},
author = {Yujiao Jiang and Yuk-Kam Lau},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.10372},
eprint = {2610.10372},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10372},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Mixed moments of arithmetic functions and Kloosterman sums
AU - Yujiao Jiang
AU - Yuk-Kam Lau
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/07
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.10372
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10372
AB - We extend the Nair--Tenenbaum estimates for short sums of nonnegative arithmetic functions at polynomial values to mixed moments involving Kloosterman sums. Combining these estimates with lower bounds obtained by refining the method of Fouvry and Michel, we prove that, for every fixed nonzero integer a and fixed z,ν>0, ∑_n≤ xz^ω(n) |Kl(a;n)|^νasymp_a,z,ν x(log x)^zs(ν)−1, where ω(n) counts distinct prime divisors and s(ν) is the ν-th absolute moment of the Sato--Tate measure. We also obtain upper bounds for mixed absolute moments of Hecke eigenvalues and Kloosterman sums, determine the frequency of large Kloosterman values on a logarithmic scale, and establish the order of magnitude predicted by Li and Sarnak for the diagonal second moment of classical Kloosterman sums. We obtain matching bounds for the smoothed spectral counting variance on the modular surface in a logarithmic range and the lower bound ∫_T^2TS(t)^2 dt≫ T^2/log T, where S(t) is the remainder in Weyl's law.
ER -