Congruences for Brewer sums

Alaca, Saban

doi:10.1016/j.ffa.2005.06.002

We prove congruences modulo 4 and modulo 8 for certain polynomial character sums, and use these congruences to give conditions for the nonvanishing of Brewer sums.

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Keywords	Brewer sums, Character sums, Dickson polynomials, Factorization of polynomials, Finite fields, Gauss sums, Jacobsthal sums, Special polynomials
Persistent URL	doi.org/10.1016/j.ffa.2005.06.002
Journal	Finite Fields and their Applications
Organisation	School of Mathematics and Statistics
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