Erdős's eventual-time conjecture for quadratic character sums
Erdős's eventual-time conjecture for quadratic character sums
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Let be omitted. For an odd \prime , write
where is the Legendre symbol modulo . For , let be the smallest integer such that
Erdős's eventual-time conjecture. There exists a constant such that
Erdős posed this as a question about the eventual time at which a quadratic character sum remains below a linear barrier. The conjecture was proved by Elliott.
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Primary source
Quanyu Tang and Hao Zhang, “Average first-passage times for character sums”, arXiv:2512.24631 (2026).
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