Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 124 4 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Put . The given bound for the Riemann zeta function, together with for , givesThe integral over is bounded, since the Riemann zeta function has no pole on this compact segment. It remains to estimate the fourth moment of the Riemann zeta function through this moving Dirichlet polynomial cutoff.
Let and . In the expansion of , a quadruple occurs precisely forIts oscillatory factor is , and its weight is . When , its integral has length at most . When these products differ, its integral over has absolute value at most . Thus the moving cutoff affects the lower endpoint but preserves the off-diagonal bound from part (a).
Write . The divisor function bounds . Grouping the off-diagonal majorant by the two products and using the weighted row-sum argument in part (a), with coefficient and , bounds it byThis uses only the given divisor-square summatory bound. For bounded , the desired conclusions follow by boundedness on compact segments, so these estimates may be read for large with . We have proved the requested diagonal-plus-error estimate:
The diagonal sum equals . If , then partial summation givesConsequently the full fourth-moment bound is