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The distribution of the maximum of partial sums of Kloosterman sums and other trace functions

Part of: Finite fields and commutative rings (number-theoretic aspects) (Co)homology theory Exponential sums and character sums Limit theorems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2021

Pascal Autissier ,
Dante Bonolis  and
Youness Lamzouri
Pascal Autissier
Affiliation:
I.M.B., Université de Bordeaux, 351, cours de la Libération, 33405Talence, [email protected]
Dante Bonolis
Affiliation:
IST Austria, Am Campus 1, 3400Klosterneuburg, [email protected]
Youness Lamzouri
Affiliation:
Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine, Université de Lorraine, BP 70239, 54506Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France and [email protected] Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ONM3J1P3, Canada
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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the distribution of the maximum of partial sums of families of $m$-periodic complex-valued functions satisfying certain conditions. We obtain precise uniform estimates for the distribution function of this maximum in a near-optimal range. Our results apply to partial sums of Kloosterman sums and other families of $\ell$-adic trace functions, and are as strong as those obtained by Bober, Goldmakher, Granville and Koukoulopoulos for character sums. In particular, we improve on the recent work of the third author for Birch sums. However, unlike character sums, we are able to construct families of $m$-periodic complex-valued functions which satisfy our conditions, but for which the Pólya–Vinogradov inequality is sharp.

MSC classification

Primary: 11L03: Trigonometric and exponential sums, general
Secondary: 11T23: Exponential sums 14F20: Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies 60F10: Large deviations
Type
Research Article
Information
Compositio Mathematica , Volume 157 , Issue 7 , July 2021 , pp. 1610 - 1651
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Footnotes

The third author is partially supported by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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