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Exponential sums and ℓ-adic cohomology: A survey

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This is the text of two lectures given at the Exponential Sums Conference held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in January 1998. In these lectures I reviewed some important results on exponential sums, which have been obtained by Deligne, Katz and others as consequences of the Grothendieck trace formula for the ℓ-adic cohomology and Deligne’s fundamental result on the Weil conjecture.

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Laumon, G. Exponential sums and ℓ-adic cohomology: A survey. Isr. J. Math. 120, 225–257 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-000-1278-6

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