Bag, Li and Zhang's generalized quadratic Gauss-sum moment conjecture

Let pp be a sufficiently large prime, let mm be a positive integer, let nn be an integer, and let χ\chi range over Dirichlet characters modulo pp. Set e(y)=e2πiye(y)=e^{2\pi iy}. Bag, Li and Zhang's conjecture.

1pm+1χmodpa=1p1χ(a)e(na2p)2m=(2m1m)+o(1).\frac{1}{p^{m+1}}\sum_{\chi\bmod p}\left|\sum_{a=1}^{p-1}\chi(a)e\left(\frac{na^2}{p}\right)\right|^{2m}=\binom{2m-1}{m}+o(1).

This is an asymptotic conjecture for the higher moments of generalized quadratic Gauss sums. The supplied text subsequently proves this statement, with an error term O(pm+1/2)O(p^{m+1/2}), so its database status is solved.

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Nilanjan Bag, Antonio Rojas-León and Zhang Wenpeng, “On some conjectures on Generalized quadratic Gauss sums and related problems”, arXiv:2105.11214 (2021).

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