A note on Burgess's estimate

DOI10.1134/S000143461009004XMaRDI QIDQ650288zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Patrick Gallagher, Hugh L Montgomery

Publication date 25 November 2011

Published in Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143461009004X

zbMATH Keywords

Burgess's estimatecharacter sumRademacher--Menchov devicereal character

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates on character sums (11L40)

Review text

This is an expository account of \textit{D. A. Burgess}'s bound [Mathematika 4, 106--112 (1957; Zbl 0081.27101)]. For simplicity the authors consider only the most basic case, proving that if \(p\) is a prime then \[ \sum_{1\leq n\leq H}\left(\frac{n}{p}\right)\ll H^{1-1/r}p^{(r+1)/(4r^2)}\log p \] uniformly for any integer \(r\geq 1\). The main theme in the exposition is that Burgess's original proof involved a number of distinct techniques interlaced within the argument. In the present paper the authors separate these out, so as to make the reasoning considerably clearer. In particular they show how the ``Rademacher--Menchov device [\textit{H. Rademacher}, Math. Ann. 87, 112--138 (1922; JFM 48.0485.05)] and [\textit{D. Menchov}, Fund. Math. 4, 82--105 (1923; JFM 49.0293.01)] allows one to pass efficiently from moments of \[ \max_{h\leq H}\left|\sum_{1\leq n\leq h}\left(\frac{n+N}{p}\right)\right| \] to the corresponding moments of \[ \left|\sum_{1\leq n\leq h}\left(\frac{n+N}{p}\right)\right|. \]

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