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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 124 4 a Solution by
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Expand the two Dirichlet polynomials, keeping the complex conjugate on . The diagonal contributes exactly . If , the exponential integral iswhose absolute value is at most . Thus the mean-value formula isThis also covers .
For , integration of over gives ; the analogous inequality holds with exchanged. Hence . This gives the requested first bound .
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