Supercharacters, exponential sums, and the uncertainty principle.

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2014.04.019zbMATH Open1296.20004arXiv1208.5271OpenAlexW2963349591MaRDI QIDQ404337FDOQ404337

Hong Suh, Luis Alberto Garcia German, Madeleine Bulkow, Gizem Karaali, Patrick S. Fleming, Matt Michal, Andrew P. Turner, J. L. Brumbaugh, Stephan Ramon Garcia

Publication date: 4 September 2014

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

Abstract: The theory of supercharacters, which generalizes classical character theory, was recently introduced by P. Diaconis and I.M. Isaacs, building upon earlier work of C. Andre. We study supercharacter theories on $(Z/nZ{)}^d$ induced by the actions of certain matrix groups, demonstrating that a variety of exponential sums of interest in number theory (e.g., Gauss, Ramanujan, Heilbronn, and Kloosterman sums) arise in this manner. We develop a generalization of the discrete Fourier transform, in which supercharacters play the role of the Fourier exponential basis. We provide a corresponding uncertainty principle and compute the associated constants in several cases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5271

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zbMATH Keywords

Gauss sumssymmetric groupsuncertainty principleconjugacy classesdiscrete Fourier transformKloosterman sumsdiscrete cosine transformGaussian periodsHeilbronn sumsRamanujan sumssupercharacterssuperclasses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42A38) Gauss and Kloosterman sums; generalizations (11L05) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on locally compact and other abelian groups (43A25)

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