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Vanishing exponential sums of fractional parts of polynomials

Let $p$ be an integer polynomial and $k$ be a natural number, both fixed. Is it the case that if $$C(\alpha) = \sum_{i=1}^k e(\alpha \{p(i)/k\})$$ equals 0, then $\alpha$ is an integer? Here, $e(x) = ...
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