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On Incomplete Character Sums to a Prime-Power Modulus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. H. H. Chalk
J. H. H. Chalk*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1
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Abstract

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Let x denote a primitive character to a prime-power modulus k = pα. The expected estimate

for the incomplete character sum has been established for r = 1 and 2 by D. A. Burgess and recently, he settled the case r = 3 for all primes p < 3, (cf. [2] for the proof and for references). Here, a short proof of the main inequality (Theorem 2) which leads to this result is presented; the argument being based upon my characterization in [3] of the solution-set of a related congruence.

Keywords

10A1010G05CongruencesCharacter Sums
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1987 , pp. 257 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1987

References

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