2 papers
math.NT2026
Quartic Gauss sums over primes and metaplectic theta functions
Chantal David, Alexander Dunn, Alia Hamieh +1
We improve 1987 estimates of Patterson for sums of quartic Gauss sums over primes. Our Type-I and Type-II estimates feature new ideas, including use of the quadratic large sieve ov…
math.NT2025
Expected Values of -functions Away from the Central Point
Chantal David, Patrick Meisner
We compute the expected value of Dirichlet -functions defined over attached to cubic characters evaluated at an arbitrary . We find a transition t…