Upper bounds for double exponential sums along a subsequence

Abstract

We consider a class of double exponential sums studied in a paper of Sinai and Ulcigrai. They proved a linear bound for these sums along the sequence of denominators in the continued fraction expansion of $\alpha$, provided $\alpha$ is badly-approximable. We provide a proof of a result, which includes a simple proof of their theorem, and which applies for all irrational $\alpha$.