Rationality of Four-Valued Families of Weil Sums of Binomials

arXiv:2306.14414v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We investigate the rationality of Weil sums of binomials of the form $W^{K,s}_u=\sum_{x \in K} \psi(x^s - u x)$, where $K$ is a finite field whose canonical additive character is $\psi$, and where $u$ is an element of $K^{\times}$ and $s$ is a positive integer relatively prime to $|K^\times|$, so that $x \mapsto x^s$ is a permutation of $K$. The Weil spectrum for $K$ and $s$, which is the family of values $W^{K,s}_u$ as $u$ …

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