Obviously, () implies the same estimate for M(Z(QN, P)). It was suggested in [2] that in this case the (1+logN) term could be omitted at the cost of multiplying by a constant. The above suggestion means that in the passage from the sum of moduli to the modulus of the sum in () essential cancellation should take place. As a contribution towards this end the authors showed that any straight line L intersects Z(QN, P) in a set FP of linear measure less than 2eP−1N. Further information about the complement of FP under certain conditions on {zk} is obtained in [1]. Clearly we may assume that N.
