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Bilinear forms with Kloosterman sums and moments of twisted L-functions

Number Theory 2025-11-12 v1

Abstract

We establish power-saving estimates for general bilinear forms with Kloosterman sums modulo arbitrary q, including when both variables are shorter than the Polya-Vinogradov range. As an application, we obtain power-saving asymptotics for the second moment of (holomorphic or Maass) modular L-functions twisted with Dirichlet characters to an arbitrary large admissible modulus q. The bounds obtained are independent of the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture and remove all factorability conditions on q in the work of Blomer, Fouvry, Kowalski, Michel, Milicevic, and Sawin.

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@article{arxiv.2511.07550,
  title  = {Bilinear forms with Kloosterman sums and moments of twisted L-functions},
  author = {Djordje Milićević and Xinhua Qin and Xiaosheng Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.07550},
  year   = {2025}
}

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37 pages