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December 2014 Twisted monomial Gauss sums modulo prime powers
Vincent Pigno, Christopher Pinner
Funct. Approx. Comment. Math. 51(2): 285-301 (December 2014). DOI: 10.7169/facm/2014.51.2.4
Abstract

We show that twisted monomial Gauss sums modulo prime powers can be evaluated explicitly once the power is sufficiently large.

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Vincent Pigno and Christopher Pinner "Twisted monomial Gauss sums modulo prime powers," Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici 51(2), 285-301, (December 2014). https://doi.org/10.7169/facm/2014.51.2.4
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