Uniform cancellation in the genuine two-character pair #
This modern argument uses the classical two-variable hyperbola decomposition and complete character periods. It does not use primitivity, quadraticity, or coprime conductors. The pair is the actual Dirichlet convolution, not a nonnegative majorant. This is an unweighted summatory estimate, not yet a weighted main-term formula for the fourfold convolution.
Exact two-variable hyperbola identity at the integer square root.
Character sums up to a natural endpoint are bounded both by their length and, for a nonprincipal character, by the full modulus.
Character arithmetic-function sums agree with character sums on positive indices.
Uniform cancellation for two arbitrary nonprincipal characters at a common
nonzero modulus: the constant is 3, even with the integer square root.
The overlap costs at most q * sqrt N, not q², because one short sum is
bounded by its length.
The standard real-square-root form of the genuine pair summatory bound.
The same bound at a real endpoint, including endpoints below 1.
Cancellation for the actual pair b = ψ * (χψ) in the fourfold
convolution, written as its exact twist ψ(n) (ζ * χ)(n).
Real-endpoint form for the actual twisted pair.