Short sums conjecture for Kloosterman sums

Let pp be prime, let aFp×a\in\mathbb{F}_p^\times, let NN and HH be integers, and write x\overline{x} for the multiplicative inverse of xx modulo pp. Short sums conjecture. There exists an ε>0\varepsilon>0 such that

NxN+He(ax+xp)H1ε,\left|\sum_{N\leq x\leq N+H}e\left(\frac{ax+\overline{x}}{p}\right)\right|\ll H^{1-\varepsilon},

uniformly for any 1<N<p1<N<p, p1/2ε/2<H<p1/2+ε/2p^{1/2-\varepsilon/2}<H<p^{1/2+\varepsilon/2}, and aFp×a\in\mathbb{F}_p^\times. This is a conjectural power-saving bound for incomplete Kloosterman sums in the transition range Hp1/2H\asymp p^{1/2}; the parser supplies no evidence that it has been resolved.

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Dante Bonolis, “On the size of the maximum of incomplete Kloosterman sums”, arXiv:1811.10563 (2018).

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