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Author(s): Andrew Granville; K. Soundararajan
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001), 365-397.
MSC (2000): Primary 11L40; Secondary 11N25
Posted: October 20, 2000
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Abstract: We make conjectures and give estimates for how large character sums can be as we vary over all characters mod

, and as we vary over real, quadratic characters. In particular we show that the largest sums seem to depend on the value of the character at ``smooth numbers''.

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Andrew Granville
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
Email: andrew@math.uga.edu

K. Soundararajan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Address at time of publication: School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Email: skannan@math.princeton.edu, ksound@ias.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-00-00357-X
PII: S 0894-0347(00)00357-X
Received by editor(s): March 29, 1999
Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 8, 2000
Posted: October 20, 2000
Additional Notes: The first author is a Presidential Faculty Fellow. He is also supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. The second author is partially supported by the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM)
Dedicated: Dedicated to John Friedlander
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society

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