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Polynomials for Kloosterman Sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

S. Gurak
S. Gurak*
Affiliation:
University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110, USA e-mail: gurak@sandiego.edu
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Abstract

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Fix an integer $m>1$ , and set ${{\zeta }_{m}}=\exp \left( 2\pi i/m \right)$ . Let $\bar{x}$ denote the multiplicative inverse of $x$ modulo $m$ . The Kloosterman sums $R\left( d \right)=\sum\limits_{x}{\zeta _{m}^{x+d\bar{x}}},1\le d\le m,\left( d,m \right)=1$ , satisfy the polynomial

$${{f}_{m}}\left( x \right)=\underset{d}{\mathop{\prod }}\,\left( x-R\left( d \right) \right)={{x}^{\phi \left( m \right)}}+{{c}_{1}}{{x}^{\phi \left( m \right)-1}}+\cdot \cdot \cdot +{{c}_{\phi \left( m \right)}},$$

where the sum and product are taken over a complete system of reduced residues modulo $m$ . Here we give a natural factorization of ${{f}_{m}}\left( x \right)$ , namely,

$${{f}_{m}}\left( x \right)=\underset{\sigma }{\mathop{\prod }}\,f_{m}^{\left( \sigma\right)}\left( x \right),$$

where $\sigma$ runs through the square classes of the group $Z_{m}^{*}$ of reduced residues modulo $m$ . Questions concerning the explicit determination of the factors $f_{m}^{\left( \sigma\right)}\left( x \right)$ (or at least their beginning coefficients), their reducibility over the rational field $\text{Q}$ and duplication among the factors are studied. The treatment is similar to what has been done for period polynomials for finite fields.

Keywords

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , 01 March 2007, pp. 71 - 84
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2007

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