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Character Sums to Smooth Moduli are Small

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leo Goldmakher
Leo Goldmakher*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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leo.goldmakher@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

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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 Pólya–Vinogradov inequality for characters with smooth conductor.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 62 , Issue 5 , 01 October 2010 , pp. 1099 - 1115
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2010

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