Renormalization of exponential sums Basic idea : Poisson formula leads to If small, much less terms in the right hand side. So right hand side varies more slowly with One erases the details (Mendès-France, Berry, Goldberg). Three questions: is there a simple analytic description of the correction terms in these formulae? are these correction terms really error terms with respect the exponential sums, i.e. are they smaller than the renormalized sum? what is the behavior of these terms for small values of ? To present the renormalization scheme, we concentrate on quadratic exponential sums i.e. on the case