Three-valued Gauss periods, circulant weighing matrices and association schemes
Abstract
Gauss periods taking exactly two values are closely related to two-weight irreducible cyclic codes and strongly regular Cayley graphs. They have been extensively studied in the work of Schmidt and White and others. In this paper, we consider the question of when Gauss periods take exactly three rational values. We obtain numerical necessary conditions for Gauss periods to take exactly three rational values. We show that in certain cases, the necessary conditions obtained are also sufficient. We give numerous examples where the Gauss periods take exactly three vlaues. Furthermore, we discuss connections between three-valued Gauss periods and combinatorial structures such as circulant weighing matrices and 3-class association schemes.
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@article{arxiv.1409.8350,
title = {Three-valued Gauss periods, circulant weighing matrices and association schemes},
author = {Tao Feng and Koji Momihara and Qing Xiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.8350},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
18 pages; the revised version