A Gauss sum estimate in arbitrary finite fields

Bourgain, Jean; Chang, Mei-Chu

doi:10.1016/j.crma.2006.01.022

Number Theory/Mathematical Analysis

A Gauss sum estimate in arbitrary finite fields

Presented by: Jean Bourgain

Bourgain, Jean ¹; Chang, Mei-Chu ²

¹ Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
² Mathematics Department, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 342 (2006) no. 9, pp. 643-646.

Abstract
Résumé

We establish bounds on exponential sums $\sum_{x \in F_{q}} ψ (x^{n})$ where $q = p^{m}$ , p prime, and ψ an additive character on $F_{q}$ . They extend the earlier work of Bourgain, Glibichuk, and Konyagin to fields that are not of prime order $(m ⩾ 2)$ . More precisely, a non-trivial estimate is obtained provided n satisfies $\gcd (n, \frac{q - 1}{p^{ν} - 1}) < p^{- ν} q^{1 - ε}$ for all $1 ⩽ ν < m$ , $ν | m$ , where $ε > 0$ is arbitrary.

On etabli des bornes sur les sommes d'exponentielles $\sum_{x \in F_{q}} ψ (x^{n})$ où $q = p^{m}$ , p est premier et ψ est un caractère additif de $F_{q}$ . Il s'agit d'une extension des résultats de Bourgain, Glibichuk, et Konyagin pour un corps qui n'est pas d'ordre premier, c'est-à-dire $m ⩾ 2$ . On obtient une estimée non-triviale pour tout n satisfaisant la condition $pgcd (n, \frac{q - 1}{p^{ν} - 1}) < p^{- ν} q^{1 - ε}$ pour tout $1 ⩽ ν < m, ν | m$ et où $ε > 0$ est arbitraire.

Received: 2005-09-07
Accepted: 2006-01-23
Published online: 2006-03-29

DOI: 10.1016/j.crma.2006.01.022

Author's affiliations:

Bourgain, Jean ¹; Chang, Mei-Chu ²

¹ Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
² Mathematics Department, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

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Bourgain, Jean; Chang, Mei-Chu. A Gauss sum estimate in arbitrary finite fields. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 342 (2006) no. 9, pp. 643-646. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2006.01.022. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2006.01.022/

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