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Large character sums
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by Andrew Granville and K. Soundararajan;
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001), 365-397
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-00-00357-X
Published electronically: 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 $q$, 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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Bibliographic Information
  • Andrew Granville
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
  • MR Author ID: 76180
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-8088-1247
  • 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
  • MR Author ID: 319775
  • Email: skannan@math.princeton.edu, ksound@ias.edu
  • Received by editor(s): March 29, 1999
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 8, 2000
  • Published electronically: 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 2000 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (2001), 365-397
  • MSC (2000): Primary 11L40; Secondary 11N25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-00-00357-X
  • MathSciNet review: 1815216