Problems and Results related to Waring's problem: Maximal functions and ergodic averages

TL;DR

This paper advances the understanding of maximal functions and ergodic averages related to Waring's problem by refining approximation formulas and expanding applicable dimensions and spaces using recent bounds.

Contribution

It generalizes the asymptotic formula for lattice points on hypersurfaces in Waring's problem and improves the dimensional and space range of maximal and ergodic theorems.

Findings

Reduced the dimension constraint in the approximation formula.

Extended the range of  spaces for maximal and ergodic theorems.

Provided conjectures on the optimal space ranges.

Abstract

We study the arithmetic analogue of maximal functions on diagonal hypersurfaces. This paper is a natural step following the papers of \cite{Magyar_dyadic}, \cite{Magyar_ergodic} and \cite{MSW}. We combine more precise knowledge of oscillatory integrals and exponential sums to generalize the asymptotic formula in Waring's problem to an approximation formula for the fourier transform of the solution set of lattice points on hypersurfaces arising in Waring's problem and apply this result to arithmetic maximal functions and ergodic averages. In sufficiently large dimensions, the approximation formula, $\ell^2$-maximal theorems and ergodic theorems were previously known. Our contribution is in reducing the dimensional constraint in the approximation formula using recent bounds of Wooley, and improving the range of $\ell^p$ spaces in the maximal and ergodic theorems. We also conjecture the expected range of spaces.