Incomplete gauss sums modulo primes

Twisted Monomial Gauss Sums modulo Prime Powers

We show that twisted monomial Gauss sums modulo prime powers can be evaluated explicitly once the power is sufficiently large.

Periods of Orbits modulo Primes

Let S be a monoid of endomorphisms of a quasiprojective variety V defined over a global field K. We prove a lower bound for the size of the reduction modulo places of K of the orbit of any point α ∈ V (K) under the action of the endomorphisms from S. We also prove a similar result in the context of Drinfeld modules. Our results may be considered as dynamical variants of Artin’s primitive root c...

Some Curious Congruences modulo Primes

Let n be a positive odd integer and let p > n + 1 be a prime. We mainly derive the following congruence: ∑ 0<i1<···<in<p ( i1 3 ) (−1)i1 i1 · · · in ≡ 0 (mod p).

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