High order moments of character sums
High order moments of character sums
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10.1090/s0002-9939-98-04625-5
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1998
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Todd Cochrane;Zhiyong Zheng
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作者:
Todd Cochrane;Zhiyong Zheng
We establish the upper bound a+B ,1 Z > X x(X)12 ?ekP l+E+BkpE, p_ EI Ex()l<<e ,k p-e+ g X?Xo x=a+l with p a prime and k any positive integer, the sum being over all nonprincipal multiplicative characters (mod p). 1. In this paper we obtain upper bounds on the character sum a+B (1) _ 1 SE SE X(X)| X#Xo x=a+l where a, B and k are positive integers, p is a prime, X runs through the set of multiplicative characters (mod p), and Xi is the principal character. We shall assume that B < p and that the interval a + 1 < x < a + B does not contain a multiple of p. A trivial bound for the sum in (1) that follows directly from the Polya-Vinogradov inequality is a+B 1 S E (X)12k < Pk(log p)2k. X#Xo x=a+1 Let B be the cube (2) B = {x EZ2k: a + 1 < xi < a + B, 1 < i < 2k} of cardinality BI = B2k, and let V be the set of integer solutions of the congruence X1X2 ..Xk Xk+1Xk+2 ... X2k (mod p). Then a+B a+B IBnVI 1 Z X(XlX2...-XkX4i. xj ) |8nv|= 1 E E E%xx . kk+l, X2k ) xl=a+l X2k=a+l X Received by the editors February 25, 1996. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 11L40, 11D79.