Improved explicit Burgess-strength bounds for composite moduli

Abstract

Consider the character sum $S(M,N)={\sum }_{n=M+1}^{M+N}\chi (n)$ for a non-principal Dirichlet character $\chi (n)$ to a (possibly composite) modulus $q$. Burgess proved that $S(M,N)\ll N^{1/2}{q}^{3/16+\epsilon }$, for any $\epsilon >0$. This was made explicit by Jain-Sharma et al., but only for moduli $q\ge \exp (\exp (9.594))\approx 8.03\times 10^{6373}$. We prove a stronger result that holds when $q\ge 1.627\times 10^{19}$.

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