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Determinants concerning Legendre symbols

Number Theory 2020-12-02 v1

Abstract

The evaluations of determinants with Legendre symbol entries have close relation with character sums over finite fields. Recently, Sun posed some conjectures on this topic. In this paper, we prove some conjectures of Sun and also study some variants. For example, we show the following result: Let p=a2+4b2p=a^2+4b^2 be a prime with a,ba,b integers and a1(mod4)a\equiv1\pmod4. Then for the determinant S(1,p):=det[(i2+j2p)]1i,jp12,S(1,p):={\rm det}\bigg[\left(\frac{i^2+j^2}{p}\right)\bigg]_{1\le i,j\le \frac{p-1}{2}}, the number S(1,p)/aS(1,p)/a is an integral square, which confirms a conjecture posed by Cohen, Sun and Vsemirnov.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00502,
  title  = {Determinants concerning Legendre symbols},
  author = {Hai-Liang Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00502},
  year   = {2020}
}

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