The Hardy-Littlewood Method

This second edition covers recent developments on Hardy-Littlewood method.

R. C. Vaughan (Author)

9780521573474, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 January 1997

248 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg

'Now in its second edition, it has been fully updated; extensive revisions have been made and a new chapter added to take account of major advances.' L'Enseignement Mathématique

The Hardy-Littlewood method is a means of estimating the number of integer solutions of equations and was first applied to Waring's problem on representations of integers by sums of powers. This introduction to the method deals with its classical forms and outlines some of the more recent developments. Now in its second edition, it has been fully updated; extensive revisions have been made and a new chapter added to take account of major advances by Vaughan and Wooley. The reader is expected to be familiar with elementary number theory and postgraduate students should find it of great use as an advanced textbook. It will also be indispensable to all lecturers and research workers interested in number theory and it is the standard reference on the Hardy-Littlewood method.

1. Introduction and historical background
2. The simplest upper bound for G(k)
3. Goldbach's problems
4. The major arcs in Waring's problem
5. Vinogradov's methods
6. Davenport's methods
7. Vinogradov's upper bound for G(k)
8. A ternary additive problem
9. Homogenous equations and Birch's theorem
10. A theorem of Roth
11. Diophantine inequalities
12. Wooley's upper bound for G(k)
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Number theory [PBH]