Sarnak's volume-approximation conjecture for polynomial level sets
Sarnak's volume-approximation conjecture for polynomial level sets
Let be a polynomial map of degree , let be a compact set satisfying (P1), and let and be parameters. Assume that is non-empty and does not lie in an -dimensional linear subspace. Sarnak's conjecture. There exists a such that
\begin{aligned} \\#\Big( \\{x\in T\cdot K: \lVert F(x)\rVert\leqslant T^{d-\alpha}\\}\cap\mathbb{Z}^n\Big) &\ll \operatorname{Vol}_n\Big(\\{x\in T\cdot K: \lVert F(x)\rVert\leqslant T^{d-\alpha}\\}\Big)\\\\ &\quad+T^{\\,n-p-\delta}. \end{aligned}This strengthens the preceding estimate by replacing its main term with the volume of the relevant sublevel set, thereby predicting that lattice-point counts are approximated by volume up to a power-saving error under the stated geometric assumptions.
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Tijs Buggenhout, Mathias Stout and Lisa Vandebrouck, “Approximating parametric suprema for constructible and power-constructible functions”, arXiv:2602.23126 (2026).
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