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Mean values of character sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

D. A. Burgess
D. A. Burgess
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Mathematics Department, The University, Nottingham, England NG7 2RD.
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In 1979 Montgomery and Vaughan [3] showed that for each k > 0

the sum being over the non-principal characters χ modulo q. As a corollary they deduced that, if 0 < θ < 1 then there is a constant c(θ) such that at least θφ(q) of the non-principal characters χ modulo q satisfy

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , June 1986 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © University College London 1986

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