Shifted Character Sums with Multiplicative Coefficients

TL;DR

This paper establishes bounds for shifted character sums with multiplicative coefficients, extending previous results and providing explicit estimates involving the modulus and the sum length.

Contribution

The paper proves new bounds for shifted character sums with multiplicative coefficients, including cases with multiple characters, advancing understanding of their behavior.

Findings

Derived bounds for single shifted character sums with multiplicative coefficients.

Extended bounds to sums involving multiple characters and shifts.

Provided explicit estimates involving the modulus q and sum length N.

Abstract

Let $f(n)$ be a multiplicative function satisfying $|f(n)|\leq 1$, $q$ $(\leq N^2)$ be a prime number and $a$ be an integer with $(a,\,q)=1$, $\chi$ be a non-principal Dirichlet character modulo $q$. In this paper, we shall prove that $$ \sum_{n\leq N}f(n)\chi(n+a)\ll {N\over q^{1\over 4}}\log\log(6N)+q^{1\over 4}N^{1\over 2}\log(6N)+{N\over \sqrt{\log\log(6N)}}. $$ We shall also prove that \begin{align*} &\sum_{n\leq N}f(n)\chi(n+a_1)\cdots\chi(n+a_t)\ll {N\over q^{1\over 4}}\log\log(6N)\\ &\quad+q^{1\over 4}N^{1\over 2}\log(6N)+{N\over \sqrt{\log\log(6N)}}, \end{align*} where $t\geq 2$, $a_1,\,\cdots,\,a_t$ are pairwise distinct integers modulo $q$.