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Lower Bounds on Odd Order Character Sums†

Lower Bounds on Odd Order Character Sums†

A classical result of Paley shows that there are infinitely many quadratic characters χ(mod q) whose character sums get as large as ⁠; this implies that a conditional upper bound of Montgomery and Vaughan cannot be improved. In this paper, we derive analogous lower bounds on character sums for characters …