The logarithmic Burgess-like character-sum conjecture

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Let qq be a positive integer, let χ\chi be a non-principal character modulo qq, and let xx satisfy

log⁡xlog⁡log⁡q⟶∞.\frac{\log x}{\log \log q}\longrightarrow\infty.

Burgess-like character-sum conjecture. For a fixed ϵ>0\epsilon>0, one has

∑n⩽xχ(n)≪ϵx(log⁡x)3+ϵ.\sum_{n\leqslant x}\chi(n)\ll_{\epsilon} \frac{x}{(\log x)^{3+\epsilon}}.

This is the Burgess-like estimate used to control the relevant exponential character sums; the paper notes that this bound is proven assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis, while the conjectural formulation is used to derive the subsequent estimate.

References

Primary source

Matteo Bordignon, “A note on medium and short character sums”, arXiv:2303.01848 (2023).

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