Double character sums with intervals and arbitrary sets (Q2423224)

Let \(p\) be a prime, and \(\mathbb{F}_p\) be the finite field of order \(p\). Let \(\chi\) be a multiplicative character of the group \(\mathbb{F}_p\setminus \{0\}\). For an interval \(\mathcal{I}=[1, X]\), an arbitrary set \(\mathcal{S}\subset \mathbb{F}_p\), and two sequences of complex weights \(\mathbf{\alpha}=\{\alpha_s\}_{s\in \mathcal{S}}\), \(\beta=\{\beta_x\}_{x\in \mathcal{I}}\) satisfying \(|\alpha_s|, |\beta_x|\le 1\) for \(s\in \mathcal{S}, x\in \mathcal{I}\), we define the following bilinear character sums \[W_{\chi}(\mathcal{I}, \mathcal{S}; \alpha, \beta)=\sum_{s\in \mathcal{S}}\sum_{x\in \mathcal{I}}\alpha_s\beta_x\chi(s+x).\] In this paper, the authors obtain new upper bounds for these sums by using recent advances in additive combinatorics. Other type character sums over primes are also studied in this paper (Theorem 1.7).