On a character sum problem of Cohn

DOI10.1006/JNTH.2001.2698MaRDI QIDQ5960984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pär Kurlberg

Publication date 22 April 2002

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101242

zbMATH Keywords

character sumsGauss sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Let $f$ be a complex valued function on a finite field $F$ such that $f(0)=0$, $f(1)=1$, and $|f(x)|=1$ for $xeq0$. Cohn asked if it follows that $f$ is a nontrivial multiplicative character provided that $$ for $heq0$. We prove that this is the case for finite fields of prime cardinality under the assumption that the nonzero values of $f$ are roots of unity.

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