On the Hybrid Power Mean Involving the Character Sums and Dedekind Sums

The main purpose of this paper is to use the elementary and analytic methods, the properties of Gauss sums, and character sums to study the computational problem of a certain hybrid power mean involving the Dedekind sums and a character sum analogous to Kloosterman sum and give two interesting identities for them.

The character sum of polynomials with k variables and two-term exponential sums

The main purpose of this paper is using the properties of the classical Gauss sums and the analytic methods to study the computational problem of one kind of hybrid power mean involving the character sums of polynomials with k variables and the two-term exponential sums, and give an identity and asymptotic formula for it.

Some Identities Involving Certain Hardy Sums and General Kloosterman Sums

Using the properties of Gauss sums, the orthogonality relation of character sum and the mean value of Dirichlet L-function, we obtain some exact computational formulas for the hybrid mean value involving general Kloosterman sums K ( r , l , λ ; p ) and certain Hardy sums S 1 ( h , q ) ∑ m = 1 p − 1 ∑ s = 1 p − 1 K ( m , n , λ ; p ) K ( s , t , λ ; p ) S 1 ( 2 m s ¯ , p ) , ∑ m = 1 p − 1 ∑ s = 1 p − 1 | K ( m , n , λ ; p ) | 2 | K ( s , t , λ ; p ) | 2 S 1 ( 2 m s ¯ , p ) . Our results not only cover the previous results, but also contain something quite new. Actually the previous authors just consider the case of the principal character λ modulo p, while we consider all the cases.

Two new constructions of approximately mutually unbiased bases

Two orthonormal bases [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of a [Formula: see text]-dimensional complex inner-product space [Formula: see text] are called mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) if and only if [Formula: see text] holds for all [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. The size of any set containing pairwise MUBs of [Formula: see text] cannot exceed [Formula: see text]. If [Formula: see text] is a power of a prime, then extremal sets containing [Formula: see text] MUBs are known to exist, which are called the complete MUBs of [Formula: see text]. We have not known whether there exist complete MUBs when [Formula: see text] is not a power of a prime so far. Therefore, many researchers focus their attention on approximately mutually unbiased bases (AMUB). In this paper, two new constructions of AMUB of [Formula: see text] are provided based on the mixed character sum of two special kinds of functions over finite fields.

Stratification for Multiplicative Character Sums

We prove a stratification result for certain families of n-dimensional (complete algebraic) multiplicative character sums. The character sums we consider are sums of products of r multiplicative characters evaluated at rational functions, and the families (with nr parameters) are obtained by allowing each of the r rational functions to be replaced by an “offset”, that is, a translate, of itself. For very general such families, we show that the stratum of the parameter space on which the character sum has maximum weight $n+j$ has codimension at least j⌊(r − 1)/2(n − 1)⌋ for 1 ≤ j ≤ n − 1 and ⌈nr/2⌉ for j = n. This result is used to obtain multivariate Burgess bounds in joint work with Lillian Pierce.

Square-full primitive roots

We use character sum estimates to give some bounds on the least square-full primitive root modulo a prime. In particular, we show that there is a square-full primitive root mod [Formula: see text] less than [Formula: see text].