@Article{NMTMA-12-453, author = {}, title = {On Generalizations of $p$-Sets and Their Applications}, journal = {Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications}, year = {2018}, volume = {12}, number = {2}, pages = {453--466}, abstract = {

The $p$-set, which is in a simple analytic form, is well distributed in unit cubes. The well-known Weil's exponential sum theorem presents an upper bound of the exponential sum over the $p$-set. Based on the result, one shows that the $p$-set performs well in numerical integration, in compressed sensing as well as in uncertainty quantification. However, $p$-set is somewhat rigid since the cardinality of the $p$-set is a prime $p$ and the set only depends on the prime number $p$. The purpose of this paper is to present generalizations of $p$-sets, say $\mathcal{P}_{d,p}^{a,\epsilon}$, which is more flexible. Particularly, when a prime number $p$ is given, we have many different choices of the new $p$-sets. Under the assumption that Goldbach conjecture holds, for any even number $m$, we present a point set, say ${\mathcal L}_{p,q}$, with cardinality $m-1$ by combining two different new $p$-sets, which overcomes a major bottleneck of the $p$-set. We also present the upper bounds of the exponential sums over  $\mathcal{P}_{d,p}^{a,\epsilon}$ and ${\mathcal L}_{p,q}$, which imply these sets have many potential applications.

}, issn = {2079-7338}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2017-0145}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/nmtma/12904.html} }