Jutila's conjecture on moments of quadratic character sums

Let S(X)S(X) denote the set of all non-principal quadratic Dirichlet characters of modulus at most XX. For k=1,2,…k=1,2,\dots, and X≥3X\geq 3, Y≥1Y\geq 1, define

Sk(X,Y):=∑χ∈S(X)∣∑n≤Yχ(n)∣2k.S_k(X,Y):=\sum_{\chi\in S(X)}\left\lvert\sum_{n\leq Y}\chi(n)\right\rvert^{2k}.

Jutila's conjecture. For all k=1,2,…k=1,2,\dots and X≥3X\geq 3, Y≥1Y\geq 1, there are coefficients c1(k)c_1(k) and c2(k)c_2(k) depending only on kk such that

Sk(X,Y)≤c1(k)XYk(log⁡X)c2(k).S_k(X,Y)\leq c_1(k)XY^k(\log X)^{c_2(k)}.

This conjecture concerns higher moments of quadratic Dirichlet character sums. The paper studies these moments in a restricted range and obtains asymptotic results and a lower bound for the exponent of the logarithmic factor, but the stated estimate is not resolved here.

References

Primary source

Yuichiro Toma, “Moments of quadratic Dirichlet character sums”, arXiv:2502.19905 (2025).

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