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Long nonnegative sums of Legendre symbols

Number Theory 2021-07-02 v2

Abstract

For 0α<10\leq \alpha<1 and prime number pp let L(α,p)L(\alpha,p) be the sum of the first [αp][\alpha p] values of Legendre symbol modulo pp. We study positivity of L(α,p)L(\alpha,p) and prove that for α13<2106|\alpha-\frac13|<2\cdot 10^{-6} and for rational α12\alpha\leq \frac12 with denominators in the set {1,2,3,4,5,6,8,12}\{1,2,3,4,5,6,8,12\} the inequality L(α,p)0L(\alpha,p)\geq 0 holds for majority of primes.

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@article{arxiv.1911.10634,
  title  = {Long nonnegative sums of Legendre symbols},
  author = {Alexander Kalmynin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.10634},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Typos corrected