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The statistics of Weil's trigonometric sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. W. K. Odoni
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow

Extract

Let F be the finite field of q = pn elements and let F0 be its prime subfield; thus, card F0 = p. For polynomials f ∈ F[x] and non-principal additive characters η of F A. Weil (1) proved the estimate

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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