Higher order moments of generalized quadratic Gauss sums weighted by \(L\)-functions (Q2121817)

For \(q \geq 2\), \(q \in \mathbb{Z}\), \(n \in \mathbb{Z}\) and a Dirichlet character \(\chi\) modulo \(q\), the generalized quadratic Gauss sums is given as \[ G(n,\chi;q):=\sum_{a=1}^{q}\chi(a)e^{2 \pi i na^2/q}. \] In this paper, 6-th and 8-th order moments of the function \(G(n,\chi;q)\) weighted by the \(L\)-function \(L(s,\chi)\) corresponding to the character \(\chi \mod p\) (\(p\) is an odd prime) are obtained. Estimates for character sums and analytic methods are used. More precisely, it is shown that, for any \(n\) with \(\text{gcd}(n,p)=1\), the following asymptotic formulas holds: \begin{itemize} \item[(1)] \(\sum_{\chi \not =\chi_0}|G(n,\chi;p)|^6 \cdot |L(1,\chi)|=10Cp^4+O(p^{7/2}\log p)\) for \(p \equiv 1 \pmod 4\) and certain constant \(C\) (\(\chi_0\) is a principal character \(\mod p\)); \item[(2)] \(\sum_{\chi \not =\chi_0}|G(n,\chi;p)|^8 \cdot |L(1,\chi)|=35 C p^5+O(p^{9/2}\log p)\) for certain constant \(C\); \item[(3)] \(\sum_{\chi \mod p}|G(n,\chi;p)|^6 =\begin{cases} & 10 p^4+O(p^{7/2}) \ \text{if} \ p \equiv 1\pmod 4, \\ &(p-1)(10 p^3-25 p^2 -4 p-1) \ \text{if} \ p \equiv 3 \pmod 4;\end{cases}\) \item[(4)] \(\sum_{\chi \mod p}|G(n,\chi;p)|^8 =35 p^5+O(p^{9/2})\). \end{itemize}