Topics in analytic number theory
James Maynard (Author), D. R. Heath-Brown (Degree supervisor), University of Oxford (Degree granting institution)
In this thesis, the author proves results using the circle method, sieve theory and the distribution of primes, character sums, modular forms and Maass forms, and the Granville-Soundararajan theory of pretentiousness. In particular, he proves theorems about partitions and q-series, almost-prime values of polynomials, Gauss sums, modular forms, quadratic forms, and multiplicative functions exhibiting extreme cancellation. This includes a proof of the Alder-Andrews conjecture, generalizations of theorems of Iwaniec and Ono and Soundararajan, and answers to questions of Zagier and Serre, as well as questions of the author in the Granville-Soundararajan theory of pretentiousness
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2013
University of Oxford, [Great Britain], 2013