Irreducibility and the distribution of some exponential sums
Institution:
1. Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain;2. Departamento de Matemática Aplicada IV, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 08034, Spain
Abstract:
We relate the distribution of the absolute value of some generalized Gauss sums to the absolute irreducibility of some polynomials in two variables in characteristic 0 and p.