Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2010
The object of this paper is first to generalize the basic inequality of the large sieve method to exponential sums in many variables, and then to deduce results for algebraic number fields that are analogous to known results for the rational field.
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‡ ║x║ denotes the distance from a real number x to the nearest integer.
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