Determinants concerning Legendre symbols (Q1979868)

In this paper the author proves several conjectures proposed recently by \textit{Z.-W. Sun} [Finite Fields Appl. 56, 285--307 (2019; Zbl 1411.11030)]. Some interesting extensions are considered, namely, it is proved that, for a prime \(p=a^2+4b^2\) with \(a,b\) integers and \(a\equiv 1\pmod{4}\), defining the determinant \[ S(1,p):=\det\Biggl[\Bigg(\frac{i^2+j^2}{p}\Bigg)\Biggr]_{1\leq i,j\leq \frac{p-1}{2}}, \] the number \(S(1,p)/a\) is an integral square.