244 PH. MICHEL, ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY AND FAMILIES OF £-FUNCTIONS
Proof. The method of Burgess consists of artificially adding summation points to
the above sum -much in the spirit of a fugue where repetition of the theme with
a slight shift creates the harmony. For the purpose of elegance, one introduces the
piecewise linear function g that is 1 on [1, NJ and zero outside [O, N + l]. Note that
[J(y) = L g(x)e(-xy)dx « min(N,y-^1 ,y-^2 ), L l§(t)ldt ( log3N.
One has (by the action of Z on itself),
Sx(N) = L x(n)g(n) = L x(n + ab)g(n +ab),
n n
for all a, b )! 1. Setting AB = N, A, B )! 1, then
[A][B]S = L LLX(n+ab)g(n+ab)
= L x(a) L L x(an + b)g(n +ab)
:s; L L / L j ~[J(~)e(~t)x(an + b)e( bt)dt/,
a::;;A lnl::;;N b::;;B
by Fourier inversion. Hence
[A][B]S « log NL L / L e( bto)x(an + b)/
a::;;A lnl::;;N b::;;B
for some t 0 E R. For u E F q, we set
v(u) = l{l (a (A, lnl ( X, an= u(q)}I,
and then
[A][B]S « logX L v(u)/ L e(bt 0 )x(u + b)/
u(q) b::;;B
( )
1-1/r ( ) 1/2r ( I 1 2r) 1/2r
( L v(u) L v(u)^2 L L e(bt 0 )x(u + b).
u(q) u(q) u(q) b::;;B
One has
L v(u) = [A]N,
u(q)
and, for AN< q/2, one has
L v(u)^2 = l{l ( ai, a2 (A, ln1I, ln2I ( N, a2n1 = ain2}I « AN(log AN)^3 ,
u(q)
since "m1 = m2(q)" and "m1 = m2" are equivalent when lm 1 I, lm 21 < q/2. Hence
we conclude that
(AN)^1 _..!_
S « (log q)l+fr
2
r
AB
· ( L IL x((u +bi)· .. (u + br))x((u + b~) ... (u + b~)) /)fr.
b1,. .. ,br::;;B u(q)
b~, ... ,b~~B
At this point we use Weil's bound for algebraic exponential sums: