Dirichlet characters of the rational polynomials
<abstract><p>Denote by $ \chi $ a Dirichlet character modulo $ q\geq 3 $, and $ \overline{a} $ means $ a\cdot\overline{a} \equiv 1 \bmod q $. In this paper, we study Dirichlet characters of the rational polynomials in the form</p> <p><disp-formula> <label/> <tex-math id="FE1"> \begin{document}$ \sum\limits^{q}_{a = 1}'\chi(ma+\overline{a}), $\end{document} </tex-math></disp-formula></p> <p>where $ \sum\limits_{a = 1}^{q}' $ denotes the summation over all $ 1\le a\le q $ with $ (a, q) = 1 $. Relying on the properties of character sums and Gauss sums, we obtain W. P. Zhang and T. T. Wang's identity <sup>[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b6">6</xref>]</sup> under a more relaxed situation. We also derive some new identities for the fourth power mean of it by adding some new ingredients.</p></abstract>
