Gauss sums over some matrix groups

Some Results on Gauss Sums

is again a Dirichlet character modulo n. In fact, the set of Dirichlet characters modulo n is again a multiplicative group, called the dual group of (Z/nZ)× and denoted ̂ (Z/nZ)×. The identity element of the dual group, mapping every element of (Z/nZ)× to 1, is the trivial character modulo n, denoted 1n or just 1 when n is clear, Since (Z/nZ)× is a finite group the values taken by any Dirichlet ...

Pure Gauss Sums over Finite Fields

New classes of pairs e,p are presented for which the Gauss sums corresponding to characters of order e over finite fields of characteristic p are pure, i.e., have a real power. Certain pure Gauss sums are explicitly evaluated. §

Character sums over norm groups

In this paper, we give estimates of character sums of Weil type. They are associated with polynomials and rational functions with coefficients in a quadratic extension k2 of a finite field k of q elements, additive and multiplicative characters of k2, and summed over the kernel of the norm map from k× 2 to k×. The bounds are of the magnitude O( √ q) with the implied constant depending on the de...

On Gauss-Jacobi sums

In this paper, we introduce a kind of character sum which simultaneously generalizes the classical Gauss and Jacobi sums, and show that this “Gauss-Jacobi sum” also specializes to the Kloosterman sum in a particular case. Using the connection to the Kloosterman sums, we obtain in some special cases the upper bound (the “Weil bound”) of the absolute values of the Gauss-Jacobi sums. We also discu...

Half Gauss Sums