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The mean value involving Dedekind sums and two-term exponential sums

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In this paper, we use the analytic methods to study the mean value properties involving the classical Dedekind sums and two-term exponential sums, and give two sharper asymptotic formulae for it.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Northwest University, Xi’an, 710127, China

    TingTing Wang & XiaoWei Pan

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Wang, T., Pan, X. The mean value involving Dedekind sums and two-term exponential sums. Sci. China Math. 55, 557–565 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-011-4342-2

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