Fractional parts of Dedekind sums

Abstract

Using a recent improvement by Bettin and Chandee to a bound of Duke, Friedlander and Iwaniec [Bilinear forms with Kloosterman fractions, Invent. Math. 128 (1997) 23–43] on double exponential sums with Kloosterman fractions, we establish a uniformity of distribution result for the fractional parts of Dedekind sums [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] running over rather general sets. Our result extends earlier work of Myerson [Dedekind sums and uniform distribution, J. Number Theory 28 (1988) 233–239] and Vardi [A relation between Dedekind sums and Kloosterman sums, Duke Math. J. 55 (1987) 189–197]. Using different techniques, we also study the least denominator of the collection of Dedekind sums [Formula: see text] on average for [Formula: see text].