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In recent years the question of maximizing GCD sums regained interest due toits firm link with large values of $L$-functions. In the present paper weinitiate the study of minimizing for positive weights~$w$ of normalized $L^1$-norm the sum $\sum_{m_1 , m_2 \leqslant N}w({m_1})w({m_2})\frac{(m_1,m_2)}{\sqrt{m_1m_2}} $. We consider as well theintertwined question of minimizing a weighted version of the usualmultiplicative energy. We give three applications of our results. Firstly weobtain a logarithmic refinement of Burgess' bound on character sums$\displaystyle{\sum_{M<n\leqslant M+N}\chi(n)}$ improving previous results ofKerr, Shparlinski and Yau. Secondly let us denote by $\theta (x,\chi)$ thetheta series associated to a Dirichlet character $\chi$ modulo $p$.Constructing a suitable mollifier, we improve a result of Louboutin and thesecond author and show that, for any $x>0$, there exists at least $ \gg p/(\logp)^{ \delta+o(1)}$ (with $\delta=1-\frac{1+\log_2 2}{\log 2} \approx 0.08607$)even characters such that $\theta(x,\chi) \neq 0$. Lastly we obtain lowerbounds on small moments of character sums.

Minimizing GCD sums and applications to non-vanishing of theta functions and to Burgess' inequality