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The fractional parts of an additive form

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. J. Cook
Affiliation:
University College, Cardiff

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Heilbronn (6) proved that for every ε ≥ 0 and N ≥ 1 and every real θ there is an integer x such that

,

where C(ε) depends only on ε and ∥α∥ is the difference between α and the nearest integer, taken positively. Danicic(1) obtained an analogous result for the fractional parts of nkθ, the proof of this is more readily accessible in Davenport(4). Danicic(2) also obtained an estimate for the fractional parts of a real quadratic form in n variables, and in order to extend this result to forms of higher degree it is desirable to first obtain results for additive forms.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1972

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