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On Hua's estimates for exponential sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

J. H. H. Chalk
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Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1, Canada.
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Let

and let p denote any prime. The p-content vp(f) of f is denned by

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Copyright © University College London 1987

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