Solution

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In the fourth moment from part c, put
Then the phase is . The contribution with is , because ; the contribution with is . Their fourth roots are respectively and .
Off the diagonals, fix . The variable ranges over an interval of length , subject only to harmless parity and range restrictions. The exponential geometric sum bound gives
Put . We have , and the number of representations of a fixed by the three factors, including signs and range restrictions, is . Hence the fourth moment is
Using in part c proves
This is the factorized fourth moment for a bilinear quadratic exponential sum.

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