### 2007 Publications

#### Rational and integral points on quadratic twists of a given hyperelliptic curve, International Mathematics Research Notices, 27.8 (2007), 24 pages.

We show that the $$abc$$-conjecture implies that few quadratic twists of a given hyperelliptic curve have any non-trivial rational or integral points; and indicate how these considerations dovetail with other predictions. Recently weak versions of these results have been proved unconditionally by Poonen and Stoll using methods first developed by Bhargava and Gross.

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#### An uncertainty principle for arithmetic sequences (with K. Soundararajan) Annals of Mathematics , 165 (2007), 593-635

Analytic number theorists usually seek to show that sequences which appear naturally in arithmetic are "well-distributed" in some appropriate sense. In various discrepancy problems, combinatorics researchers have analyzed limitations to equi-distribution, as have Fourier analysts when working with the "uncertainty principle". In this article we find that these ideas have a natural setting in the analysis of distributions of sequences in analytic number theory, formulating a general principle, and giving several examples.

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#### Large character sums: Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov theorem (with K. Soundararajan) Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 20 (2007), 357-384.

We give the first significant improvement to the Polya-Vinogradov theorem since 1919. This article highlights what was then the new concept of pretentiousness.

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#### The distribution of roots of a polynomial Equidistribution in number theory, An introduction, NATO Sci. Ser. II Math. Phys. Chem. 237 (2007), 93-102.

We discuss and reprove the Erdos-Turan theorem on the equidistribution in arguments of the roots of polynomials of small height, as well as Bilu's equidistribution theorem for algebraic numbers.

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#### Torsion points on curves (with Ze'ev Rudnick) Equidistribution in number theory, An introduction, NATO Sci. Ser. II Math. Phys. Chem. 237 (2007), 85-92.

We present two proofs of Lang's conjecture for $$(G_m)^n$$.

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#### Sieving and the Erdos-Kac theorem (with K. Soundararajan) Equidistribution in number theory, An introduction, NATO Sci. Ser. II Math. Phys. Chem. 237 (2007), 15-27.

We give a relatively easy proof of the Erdos-Kac theorem via computing moments. We also show how this proof extends naturally in a sieve theory context, and how it leads to several related results in the literature.

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#### Uniform distribution (with Ze'ev Rudnick) Equidistribution in number theory, An introduction, NATO Sci. Ser. II Math. Phys. Chem. 237 (2007), 1-13.

An expository paper introducing the link between uniform distribution and exponential sums

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#### Prime divisors are Poisson distributed International Journal of Number Theory,3 (2007), 1-18.

We show that the set of prime factors of almost all integers are "Poisson distributed", and that this remains true (appropriately formulated) even when we restrict the number of prime factors of the integer. Our results have inspired analogous results about the distribution of cycle lengths of permutations.

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#### Extreme values of $$|\zeta(1+it)|$$ (with K. Soundararajan) The Riemann zeta function and related themes: papers in honour of Professor K. Ramachandra, Ramanujan Math. Soc. Lect. Notes Ser. 2 (2007), 65--80.

We study the distribution function for $$|\zeta(1+it)|$$, taking special care with the extreme values.

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#### Lattice points on circles, squares in arithmetic progressions, and sumsets of squares (with Javier Cilleruelo) Additive Combinatorics, CRM Proceedings & Lecture Notes 43 (2007), 241-262.

We discuss the relationship between various additive problems concerning squares.

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#### An Introduction to Additive Combinatorics, Additive Combinatorics, CRM Proceedings & Lecture Notes 43 (2007), 1-27.

This is a slightly expanded write-up of my three lectures at the Additive Combinatorics school. In the first lecture we introduce some of the basic material in Additive Combinatorics, and in the next two lectures we prove two of the key background results, the Freiman-Ruzsa theorem and Roth?s theorem for 3-term arithmetic progressions.

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#### Negative values of truncations to $$L(1,\chi)$$ (with K. Soundararajan) Analytic Number Theory: A Tribute to Gauss and Dirichlet, Clay Mathematics Proceedings 7 (2007), 141-148.

For fixed large $$x$$ we give upper and lower bounds for the minimum of $$\sum_{n\leq x} \chi(n)/n$$ as we minimize over all real-valued Dirichlet characters $$\chi$$. Expanding our considerations to all multiplicative, real-valued multiplicative functions of absolute value $$\leq 1$$, the minimum equals $$-0.4553 · · ·+o(1)$$, and in this case we can classify the set of optimal functions.

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#### Refinements of Goldbach's conjecture, and the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, Functiones et Approximatio (Deshouillers volume), 37 (2007), 159-173.

We present three remarks on Goldbach's problem. First we suggest a refinement of Hardy and Littlewood's conjecture for the number of representations of $$2n$$ as the sum of two primes, positing an estimate with a very small error term. Next we show that if a strong form of Goldbach's conjecture is true then every even integer is the sum of two primes from a rather sparse set of primes. Finally we show that an averaged strong form of Goldbach's conjecture is equivalent to the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis; as well as a similar equivalence to estimates for the number of ways of writing integers as the sum of $$k$$ primes.

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