A Chevalley-Warning approach to $p$-adic estimates of character sums
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- by Da Qing Wan
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 45-54
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1215208-3
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Abstract:
The elementary Chevalley-Warning congruence method is applied to obtain several p-adic estimates of character sums over finite fields.References
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Bibliographic Information
- © Copyright 1995 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 45-54
- MSC: Primary 11T24; Secondary 11D79, 11L40, 11T23
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1215208-3
- MathSciNet review: 1215208