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On the large sieves of Linnik and Rényi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

K. F. Roth
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University College, London
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Let N be a natural number, and let be a non-empty subset of the set of integers

Let Z be the number of elements of . We denote by Z(p, h) the number of elements of falling into the congruence class h modulo p, so that

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Copyright © University College London 1965

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