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Prime power Gauss sums are zero

Fix an odd prime $p$. Then for a positive integer $a$, I can look at the quadratic Legendre symbol Gauss sum $$ G_p(a) = \sum_{n \,\bmod\, p} \left( \frac{n}{p} \right) e^{2 \pi i a n / p}$$ where ...
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The Legendre symbol for an integer but not the Jacobi symbol

Let $p$ be a prime number and $\big(\frac{a}{p} \big)$ be the Legendre symbol. Then we have the equality $\sum_{a=1}^{p-1} \big(\frac{a}{p} \big) \zeta^a =\sum_{t=0}^{p-1} \zeta^{t^2}$, where ...
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How to prove a generalized Gauss sum formula

I read the wikipedia article on quadratic Gauss sum. link First let me write a definition of a generalized Gauss sum. Let $G(a, c)= \sum_{n=0}^{c-1}\exp (\frac{an^2}{c})$, where $a$ and $c$ are ...
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A Gauss sum like summation

I would like to calculate the following sum. Let $\zeta$ be a primitive $n$ th root of unity for some integer $n$. Here $n$ is not necessarily prime. The sum is $$\sum_{j=1}^n (-1)^j ...
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Gauss Sum of a Field with Four Elements

I need to calculate a couple of Gauss sums to solve a problem I'm working on, but I keep getting the wrong answer because the absolute value of what I calculate is impossible for such a sum. Can ...
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Number of solutions of $N(y^{2}+x^{3}=1)=p+2ReJ(\chi,\rho)$

This is similar to a question I recently asked about. It is from Ireland's Number theory book, ch.8, ex.27 b,c. I think I can do the first part of this question, but I think there might be a trick ...
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Gauss-type sums for cube roots of primes

(Quadratic) Gauss sums express square root of any integer as a sum of roots of unity (or of cosines of rational multiples of $2\pi$, if you will) with rational coefficients. But Kronecker-Weber ...
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Determining the Value of a Gauss Sum.

Can we evaluate the exact form of $$g\left(k,n\right)=\sum_{r=0}^{n-1}\exp\left(2\pi i\frac{r^{2}k}{n}\right) $$ for general $k$ and $n$? For $k=1$, on MathWorld we have that ...