The limiting distribution of Legendre paths

DOI10.5802/JEP.260MaRDI QIDQ6434318zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ayesha Hussain, Youness Lamzouri

Publication date 25 April 2023

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.5802/JEP.260

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions in probabilistic number theory (11K65) Estimates on character sums (11L40) Other results on the distribution of values or the characterization of arithmetic functions (11N64)

Abstract: Let $p$ be a prime number and $left(fraccdotpight)$ be the Legendre symbol modulo $p$. The Legendre path attached to $p$ is the polygonal path whose vertices are the normalized character sums $frac1sqrtpsu{m}_{nleqj}left(fracnpight)$ for $0leqjleqp-1$. In this paper, we investigate the distribution of Legendre paths as we vary over the primes $Qleqpleq2Q$, when $Q$ is large. Our main result shows that as $Qoinfty$, these paths converge in law, in the space $C([0,1])$, to a certain random Fourier series constructed using Rademacher random completely multiplicative functions. This was previously proved by the first author under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis.

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