The large sieve revisited
Acta Arithmetica
MSC: Primary 11N35; Secondary 11R32
DOI: 10.4064/aa230704-1-11
Opublikowany online: 7 February 2024
Streszczenie
We interpret the large sieve inequality as essentally a character-theoretic inequality on the Prüfer group $\widehat {\mathbb {Z}}$. This perspective allows us to formulate a general “profinite sieve”.
