Prime power exponential and character sums with explicit evaluations

Doctor of Philosophy === Department of Mathematics === Christopher Pinner === Exponential and character sums occur frequently in number theory. In most applications one is only interested in estimating such sums. Explicit evaluations of such sums are rare. In this thesis we succeed in evaluatin...

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Main Author: Pigno, Vincent
Language:en_US
Published: Kansas State University 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18277