On twisted Galois-Gauß sums and canonical factorizations (Q1346340)

Using the notion of canonical factorizations, Fröhlich has shown that the Galois-Gauß sum is characterized to within unit idèles by structural invariants of rings of algebraic integers. In this paper it is shown that this is only a special case of a more general phenomenon. More precisely, even after twisting by non-singular Adams operators the Galois-Gauß sum is characterized to within unit idèles by structural invariants of naturally occuring integral Galois representations.