Sum formula for Kloosterman sums and fourth moment of the Dedekind zeta-function over the Gaussian number field

We consider a family of character sums as multiplicative analogues of Kloosterman sums. Using Gauss sums, Jacobi sums and Deligne's bound for hyper-Kloosterman sums, we establish asymptotic formulae for any real (positive) moments of the above character sum as the character runs over all non-trivial multiplicative characters mod $p.$ Moreover, an arcsine law is also established as a consequence of the method of moments. The evaluations of these moments also allow us to obtain...

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating character sums to composite modulus and obtain some progress towards removing the cubefree restriction in the Burgess bound. Our approach is to estimate high order moments of character sums in terms of solutions to congruences with Kloosterman fractions and we deal with this problem by extending some techniques of Bourgain, Garaev, Konyagin and Shparlinski and Bourgain and Garaev from the setting of prime modulus to composit...

We show that sums of the SL(3,Z) long element Kloosterman sum against a smooth weight function have cancellation due to the variation in argument of the Kloosterman sums, when each modulus is at least the square root of the other. Our main tool is Li's generalization of the Kuznetsov formula on SL(3,R), which has to date been prohibitively difficult to apply. We first obtain analytic expressions for the weight functions on the Kloosterman sum side by converting them to Mellin...

We give more evidence for Patterson's conjecture on sums of exponential sums, by getting an asymptotic for a sum of quartic exponential sums over $\Q[i].$ Previously, the strongest evidence of Patterson's conjecture over a number field is the paper of Livn\'{e} and Patterson \cite{LP} on sums of cubic exponential sums over $\Q[\omega], \omega^3=1.$ The key ideas in getting such an asymptotic are a Kuznetsov-like trace formula for metaplectic forms over a quartic cover of $G...

Spectral moment formulae of various shapes have proven to be very successful in studying the statistics of central $L$-values. In this article, we establish, in a completely explicit fashion, such formulae for the family of $GL(3)\times GL(2)$ Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions using the period integral method. The Kuznetsov and the Voronoi formulae are not needed in our argument. We also prove the essential analytic properties and explicit formulae for the integral transform of ou...

We give generating functions for Gauss sums for finite general linear and unitary groups. For the general linear case only our method of proof is new, but we deduce a bound on Kloosterman sums which is sometimes sharper than Deligne's bound from algebraic geometry.

We formulate several analogues of the Chowla and Sarnak conjectures, which are widely known in the setting of the M\"obius function, in the setting of Kloosterman sums. We then show that for Kloosterman sums, in some cases, these conjectures can be established unconditionally.

The L-function of symmetric powers of classical Kloosterman sums is a polynomial whose degree is now known, as well as the complex absolute values of the roots. In this paper, we provide estimates for the p-adic absolute values of these roots. Our method is indirect. We first develop a Dwork-type p-adic cohomology theory for the two-variable infinite symmetric power L-function associated to the Kloosterman family, and then study p-adic estimates of the eigenvalues of Frobeniu...

We prove an asymptotic formula with a power saving error term for the (pure or mixed) second moment of central values of L-functions of any two (possibly equal) fixed cusp forms f, g twisted by all primitive characters modulo q, valid for all sufficiently factorable q including 99.9% of all admissible moduli. The two key ingredients are a careful spectral analysis of a potentially highly unbalanced shifted convolution problem in Hecke eigenvalues and power-saving bounds for s...

We study the meromorphic continuation and the spectral expansion of the oppposite sign Kloosterman sum zeta function, $$(2\pi \sqrt{mn})^{2s-1}\sum_{\ell=1}^\infty \frac{S(m,-n,\ell)}{\ell^{2s}}$$ for $m,n$ positive integers, to all $s \in \mathbb{C}$. There are poles of the function corresponding to zeros of the Riemann zeta function and the spectral parameters of Maass forms. The analytic properties of this function are rather delicate. It turns out that the spectral expans...