• Title of article

    Congruences for Brewer sums

  • Author/Authors

    Saban Alaca, Kenneth S. Williams، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    19
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    19
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    Dickson polynomials , finite fields , Factorization of polynomials , Brewer sums , Character sums , Jacobsthal sums , Specialpolynomials , Gauss sums
  • Journal title
    Finite Fields and Their Applications
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Finite Fields and Their Applications
  • Record number

    701231