Gauss sums and their prime factorization

MaRDI QIDQ757483zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. Brinkhuis

Publication date 1990

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

annihilation of ideal class groups by Stickelberger idealsfinite fieldprime factorization of Gauss sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gauss and Kloosterman sums; generalizations (11L05) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18) Other character sums and Gauss sums (11T24)

Review text

The author gives a new proof of the prime factorization of Gauss sums associated with the finite field of p elements (p prime). The author's very simple proof derives the prime fatorization as a formal consequence of four basic properties of Gauss sums.

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