Equidistribution conjecture for squared sextic Gauss sums

Let Ψ6(X)\Psi_6(X) be the primitive Dirichlet characters of order 66 with conductor at most XX, and let τ(χ)\tau(\chi) be the Gauss sum of χ\chi. Sextic Gauss-sum equidistribution conjecture. The points

τ(χ)2q,χΨ6(X),q=cond(χ),\frac{\tau(\chi)^2}{q},\qquad \chi\in\Psi_6(X),\quad q=\operatorname{cond}(\chi),

should equidistribute on the unit circle as XX\to\infty. This extends the established equidistribution result for totally sextic characters to the full sextic family, where the paper identifies a slower expected rate of equidistribution.

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Jennifer Berg, Nathan C. Ryan and Matthew P. Young, “Vanishing of Quartic and Sextic Twists of L-functions”, arXiv:2301.05329 (2023).

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