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In this article, we investigate conditional large values of quadratic Dirichlet character sums with multiplicative coefficients. We prove some Omega results under the assumption of the generalized Riemann hypothesis.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Zikang Dong , Yutong Song , Weijia Wang , Hao Zhang , Shengbo Zhao

In this article, we investigate large values of Dirichlet character sums with multiplicative coefficients $\sum_{n\le N}f(n)\chi(n)$. We prove an Omega result in the region $\exp((\log q)^{\frac12+\varepsilon})\le N\le\sqrt q$, where $q$ is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Zikang Dong , Zhonghua Li , Yutong Song , Shengbo Zhao

In this paper, we investigate large values of Dirichlet character sums with multiplicative coefficients $\sum_{n\le N}f(n)\chi(n)$. We prove a new Omega result in the region $\exp((\log q)^{\frac12+\delta})\le N\le\sqrt q$, where $q$ is the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Zikang Dong , Yutong Song , Weijia Wang , Hao Zhang , Shengbo Zhao

We study extreme values of Dirichlet polynomials with multiplicative coefficients, namely \[D_N(t) : = D_{f,\, N}(t)= \frac{1}{\sqrt{N}} \sum_{n\leqslant N} f(n) n^{it}, \] where $f$ is a completely multiplicative function with $|f(n)|=1$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Max Wenqiang Xu , Daodao Yang

In this article, we investigate conditional large values of quadratic Dirichlet character sums. We prove some Omega results of quadratic character sums under the assumption of the generalized Riemnn hypothesis, which are as sharp as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Zikang Dong , Yanbin Zhang

We study large values of quadratic character sums with summation lengths exceeding the square root of the modulus. Assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, we obtain a new Omega result.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zikang Dong , Ruihua Wang , Weijia Wang , Hao Zhang

In this article, we investigate the conditional large values of quadratic Dirichlet character sums. We prove an Omega result for quadratic character sums under the assumption of the generalized Riemann hypothesis.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Zikang Dong , Yutong Song , Ruihua Wang , Shengbo Zhao

We consider the size of large character sums, proving new lower bounds for the quantity $\Delta(N,q) = \sup_{\chi\neq \chi_0 mod q} |\sum_{n < N} \chi(n)|$ for almost all ranges of $N$. The results are proven using the resonance method and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Bob Hough

Let $q$ be a prime power and $r$ a positive even integer. Let $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ be the finite field with $q$ elements and $\mathbb{F}_{q^r}$ be its extension field of degree $r$. Let $\chi$ be a nontrivial multiplicative character of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Kaimin Cheng , Arne Winterhof

We obtain transformation formulas for quadratic character sums with quartic and cubic polynomial arguments.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Bogdan Nica

Given a finite field $\mathbb F_q$, a positive integer $n$ and an $\mathbb F_q$-affine space $\mathcal A\subseteq \mathbb F_{q^n}$, we provide a new bound on the sum $\sum_{a\in \mathcal A}\chi(a)$, where $\chi$ a multiplicative character…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Lucas Reis

For integer $q$, let $\chi$ be a primitive multiplicative character$\pmod q.$ For integer $a$ coprime to $q$, we obtain a new bound for the sums $$\sum_{n\le N}\Lambda(n)\chi(n+a),$$ where $\Lambda(n)$ is the von Mangoldt function. This…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Bryce Kerr

We improve a recent result of B. Hanson (2015) on multiplicative character sums with expressions of the type $a + b +cd$ and variables $a,b,c,d$ from four distinct sets of a finite field. We also consider similar sums with $a + b(c+d)$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Ilya D. Shkredov , Igor E. Shparlinski

We consider incomplete exponential sums in several variables of the form S(f,n,m) = \frac{1}{2^n} \sum_{x_1 \in \{-1,1\}} ... \sum_{x_n \in \{-1,1\}} x_1 ... x_n e^{2\pi i f(x)/p}, where m>1 is odd and f is a polynomial of degree d with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-16 Eduardo Duenez , Steven J. Miller , Howard Straubing , Amitabha Roy

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$, and $P \in E(\mathbb{F}_p)$ be an $\mathbb{F}_p$-rational point. We obtain nontrivial estimates for multiplicative character sums associated with the division polynomials…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Subham Bhakta

In this paper, we investigate large values of Dirichlet polynomials with multiplicative coefficients $\sum_{n\le N}f(n)n^{it}$, where $1\ll t\le T$ for large $T$. We prove an improved Omega result in the region $\exp((\log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Zikang Dong , Yutong Song , Weijia Wang , Hao Zhang , Shengbo Zhao

We obtain nontrivial estimates of quadratic character sums of division polynomials $\Psi_n(P)$, $n=1,2, ...$, evaluated at a given point $P$ on an elliptic curve over a finite field of $q$ elements. Our bounds are nontrivial if the order of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Igor E Shparlinski , Katherine E. Stange

In this paper we give a refinement of the bound of D. A. Burgess for multiplicative character sums modulo a prime number $q$. This continues a series of previous logarithmic improvements, which are mostly due to H. Iwaniec and E. Kowalski.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Bryce Kerr , Igor E. Shparlinski , Kam Hung Yau

We obtain explicit estimates for the mixed character sum $S= S(\chi,g,f,p^m) = \sum_{x=1}^{p^m} \chi (g(x)) e_{p^m}(f(x))$, where $p^m$ is a prime power, $\chi$ is a multiplicative character mod $p^m$ and $f,g$ are rational functions over…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Todd Cochrane , Andrew Granville

We obtain nontrivial bounds for character sums with multiplicative and additive characters over finite fields over elements with restricted coordinate expansion. In particular, we obtain a nontrivial estimate for such a sum over a finite…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Siddharth Iyer , Igor Shparlinski
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