Quartic Gauss sums over primes and metaplectic theta functions

arXiv2306.11875MaRDI QIDQ6440918FDOQ6440918

Authors: Chantal David, Alexander Dunn, Alia Hamieh, Hua Lin 

Publication date: 20 June 2023

Abstract: We improve 1987 estimates of Patterson for sums of quartic Gauss sums over primes. Our Type-I and Type-II estimates feature new ideas, including use of the quadratic large sieve over $mathbbQ(i)$, and Suzuki's evaluation of the Fourier-Whittaker coefficients of quartic theta functions at squares. We also conjecture asymptotics for certain moments of quartic Gauss sums over primes.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms (11F30) Gauss and Kloosterman sums; generalizations (11L05) Sums over primes (11L20) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

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