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Open AccessArticleSubexponential Computation of Truncated Theta Series
Francesco Sica
Annals of Communications in Mathematics 2025,
8 (3),
425-430
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62072/acm.2025.080309
ABSTRACT.We describe an algorithm to compute in \( O\!\left(e^{c\sqrt{k\log k}}\right) \) binary operations, for some absolute constant \( c > 0 \), expressions like\[\sum_{1 \le n \le 2^{\alpha}}e^{\frac{2\pi i n^{2}}{2^{k}}}\, n^{a}\,\,\,{\rm and}\sum_{1 \le n \le 2^{\alpha}} \sum_{1 \le m \le 2^{\beta}}e^{\frac{2\pi i n m}{2^{k}}}\, n^{a} m^{b},\] where \( \alpha, \beta = O(k) \) and \( a,b \) are fixed (small) nonnegative integers. The error terms in these computations are \( O(e^{-ck}) \).Keywords. Theta series, partial sums, integer factorisation.




