Character sums over affine spaces and applications

Character sums over norm groups

In this paper, we give estimates of character sums of Weil type. They are associated with polynomials and rational functions with coefficients in a quadratic extension k2 of a finite field k of q elements, additive and multiplicative characters of k2, and summed over the kernel of the norm map from k× 2 to k×. The bounds are of the magnitude O( √ q) with the implied constant depending on the de...

Double Character Sums over Subgroups and Intervals

We estimate double sums Sχ(a, I,G) = ∑

On Certain Character Sums over Smooth Numbers

AFFINE SUBGROUPS OF THE CLASSICAL GROUPS AND THEIR CHARACTER DEGREES

In this paper we describe how the degrees of the irreducible characters of the affine subgroups of the classical groups under consideration can be found inductively. In [4] Gow obtained certain character degrees for all of the affine subgroups of the classical groups. We apply the method of Fischer to the above groups and, in addition to the character degrees given in [4], we obtain some ne...

COMPUTATION OF CHARACTER SUMS AND APPLICATIONS TO PREHOMOGENEOUS VECTOR SPACES 1 with an appendix ” L - FUNCTIONS OF PREHOMOGENEOUS VECTOR SPACES

For an arbitrary number field K with ring of integers OK , we prove an analogue over finite rings of the form OK/p of the Fundamental Theorem on the Fourier transform of a relative invariant of prehomogeneous vector spaces, where p is a big enough prime ideal of OK and m > 1. In the appendix, F. Sato gives an application of the Theorems 1.2 and 1.5 (and Theorems A, B, C in [4]) to the functiona...