Evaluating Prime Power Gauss and Jacobi Sums
Number Theory
2014-10-24 v1
Abstract
We show that for any mod characters, the Jacobi sum, has a simple evaluation when is sufficiently large (for if ). As part of the proof we give a simple evaluation of the mod Gauss sums when .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.6179,
title = {Evaluating Prime Power Gauss and Jacobi Sums},
author = {Misty Long and Vincent Pigno and Christopher Pinner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6179},
year = {2014}
}