Character sums to smooth moduli are small
Number Theory
2019-08-15 v3
Abstract
Recently, Granville and Soundararajan have made fundamental breakthroughs in the study of character sums. Building on their work and using estimates on short character sums developed by Graham-Ringrose and Iwaniec, we improve the Polya-Vinogradov inequality for characters with smooth conductor.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.1574,
title = {Character sums to smooth moduli are small},
author = {Leo Goldmakher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1574},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
18 pages. Section 5 significantly revised