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May
24
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Burgess bounds for short character sums in new settings
Lillian Pierce
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214, Princeton University

In the late 1950’s, Burgess developed a novel method for bounding short sums of a multiplicative Dirichlet character. This resulted in a subconvexity bound for Dirichlet $L$-functions on the critical line. In recent work, we have adapted the Burgess...