EQUIDISTRIBUTION OF HIGHER DIMENSIONAL GENERALIZED DEDEKIND SUMS AND EXPONENTIAL SUMS

Abstract

We consider generalized Dedekind sums in dimension n, defined as sum of products of values of periodic Bernoulli functions. For the generalized Dedekind sums, we associate a Laurent polynomial. Using this, we associate an exponential sum of a Laurent polynomial to the generalized Dedekind sums and show that this exponential sum has a nontrivial bound that is sufficient to fulfill the equidistribution criterion of Weyl and thus the fractional part of the generalized Dedekind sums are equidistributed in R/Z.