Power-moments of SL3(ℤ) Kloosterman sums

Classical Kloosterman sums have a prominent role in the study of automorphic forms on GL₂ and further they have numerous applications in analytic number theory. In recent years, various problems in analytic theory of automorphic forms on GL₃ have been considered, in which analogous GL₃-Kloosterman sums (related to the corresponding Bruhat decomposition) appear. In this note we investigate the first four power-moments of the Kloosterman sums associated with the group SL₃(?). We give formulas for the first three moments and a nontrivial bound for the fourth.     

A Kuznetsov Formula for Kloosterman Sums on GLn

We prove a Kuznetsov sum formula for Kloosterman sums on GL _n corresponding to the big Bruhat cell. Using this formula, a weighted sum of Kloosterman sums can be expressed in spectral decomposition. A non-trivial estimate of the spectral side might lead to a proof of cancellations in sums of Kloosterman sums on GL _n.     

Kloosterman sum identities and low-weight codewords in a cyclic code with two zeros

We apply relations of n-dimensional Kloosterman sums to exponential sums over finite fields to count the number of low-weight codewords in a cyclic code with two zeros. As a corollary we obtain a new proof for a result of Carlitz which relates one- and two-dimensional Kloosterman sums. In addition, we count some power sums of Kloosterman sums over certain subfields.     

Classical Kloosterman sums: Representation theory, magic squares, and Ramanujan multigraphs

We consider a certain finite group for which Kloosterman sums appear as character values. This leads us to consider a concrete family of commuting hermitian matrices which have Kloosterman sums as eigenvalues. These matrices satisfy a number of “magical” combinatorial properties and they encode various arithmetic properties of Kloosterman sums. These matrices can also be regarded as adjacency matrices for multigraphs which display Ramanujan-like behavior.     

On Weil's proof of the bound for Kloosterman sums

While most proofs of the Weil bound on one-variable Kloosterman sums over finite fields are carried out in all characteristics, the original proof of this bound, by Weil, assumes the characteristic is odd. We show how to make Weil's argument work in even characteristic, for both ordinary Kloosterman sums and sums twisted by a multiplicative character.     

On sums of \mathit{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z}) Kloosterman sums

We show that sums of the $\mathit{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$ long element Kloosterman sum against a smooth weight function have cancelation due to the variation in argument of the Kloosterman sums, when each modulus is at least the square root of the other. Our main tool is Li’s generalization of the Kuznetsov formula on $\mathit{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$ , which has to date been prohibitively difficult to apply. We first obtain analytic expressions for the weight functions on the Kloosterman sum side by converting them to Mellin–Barnes integral form. This allows us to relax the conditions on the test function and to produce a partial inversion formula suitable for studying sums of the long-element $\mathit{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$ Kloosterman sums.     

On the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture for modular forms of half-integral weight

It is shown that a “character twist” of a growth estimate for certain weighted infinite sums of Kloosterman sums which is equivalent to the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture for modular forms of half-integral weight, can easily be proved using Deligne’s theorem (previously the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture for modular forms of integral weight).     

On zeros of Kloosterman sums

A Kloosterman zero is a non-zero element of ${{\mathbb F}_q}$ for which the Kloosterman sum on ${{\mathbb F}_q}$ attains the value 0. Kloosterman zeros can be used to construct monomial hyperbent (bent) functions in even (odd) characteristic, respectively. We give an elementary proof of the fact that for characteristic 2 and 3, no Kloosterman zero in ${{\mathbb F}_q}$ belongs to a proper subfield of ${{\mathbb F}_q}$ with one exception that occurs at q = 16. It was recently proved that no Kloosterman zero exists in a field of characteristic greater than 3. We also characterize those binary Kloosterman sums that are divisible by 16 as well as those ternary Kloosterman sums that are divisible by 9. Hence we provide necessary conditions that Kloosterman zeros must satisfy.     

On Z4-Linear Goethals Codes and Kloosterman Sums

Studying the coset weight distributions of the Z₄-linear Goethals codes, e connect these codes with the Kloosterman sums. From one side, e obtain for some cases, of the cosets of weight four, the exact expressions for the number of code ords of weight four in terms of the Kloosterman sums. From the other side, e obtain some limitations for the possible values of the Kloosterman sums, hich improve the well known results due to Lachaud and Wolfmann kn:lac.     

An identity involving Dedekind sums and generalized Kloosterman sums

The various properties of classical Dedekind sums S(h, q) have been investi-gated by many authors. For example, Yanni Liu and Wenpeng Zhang: A hybrid mean value related to the Dedekind sums and Kloosterman sums, Acta Mathematica Sinica, 27 (2011), 435–440 studied the hybrid mean value properties involving Dedekind sums and generalized Kloosterman sums K(m, n, r; q). The main purpose of this paper, is using the analytic methods and the properties of character sums, to study the computational problem of one kind of hybrid mean value involving Dedekind sums and generalized Kloosterman sums, and give an interesting identity.     

Nonvanishing of Siegel Poincaré series

We prove that, under suitable conditions, certain Siegel Poincaré series of exponential type of even integer weight and degree 2 do not vanish identically. We also find estimates for twisted Kloosterman sums and Salié sums in all generality.     

A generalization of power moments of Kloosterman sums

We find an expression for a sum which can be viewed as a generalization of power moments of Kloosterman sums studied by Kloosterman and Salié. Received: 24 March 2006     

Mean Value of Kloosterman Sums over Short Intervals

This paper is concerned with a kind of mean value problem of Kloosterman sums, which will lead to a sum of Kloosterman sums over short intervals.     

Exponential Sums and Coding Theory: A Review

This article is a survey of several recent applications of methods from analytic number theory to research in coding theory, including results on Kloosterman codes, binary Goppa codes, and prime phase shift sequences. The mathematical methods focus on exponential sums, in particular Kloosterman sums. The interrelationships with the Weil–Carlitz–Uchiyama bound, results on Hecke operators, theorems of Bombieri and Deligne and the Eichler–Selberg trace formula are reviewed.     

Congruences with intervals and arbitrary sets

Given a prime p, an integer $$H\in [1,p)$$, and an arbitrary set $${\mathcal {M}} \subseteq {\mathbb {F}} _p^*$$, where $${\mathbb {F}} _p$$ is the finite field with p elements, let $$J(H,{\mathcal {M}} )$$ denote the number of solutions to the congruence $$\begin{aligned} xm\equiv yn~\mathrm{mod}~ p \end{aligned}$$for which $$x,y\in [1,H]$$ and $$m,n\in {\mathcal {M}} $$. In this paper, we bound $$J(H,{\mathcal {M}} )$$ in terms of p, H, and the cardinality of $${\mathcal {M}} $$. In a wide range of parameters, this bound is optimal. We give two applications of this bound: to new estimates of trilinear character sums and to bilinear sums with Kloosterman sums, complementing some recent results of Kowalski et al. (Stratification and averaging for exponential sums: bilinear forms with generalized Kloosterman sums, 2018, arXiv:1802.09849).     

Identities of incomplete Kloosterman sums

Identities between incomplete Kloosterman sums and incomplete hyper-Kloosterman sums are established.

     

On Moduli Spaces,Equidistribution, Estimates,and Rational Points of Algebraic Curves

We consider the moduli spaces of hyperelliptic curves, Artin–Schreier coverings, and some other families of curves of this type over fields of characteristic p. By using the Postnikov method, we obtain expressions for the Kloosterman sums. The distribution of angles of the Kloosterman sums was investigated on a computer. For small prime p, we study rational points on curves y ² = f(x). We consider the problem of the accuracy of estimates of the number of rational points of hyperelliptic curves and the existence of rational points of curves of the indicated type on the moduli spaces of these curves over a prime finite field.     

Reducing character sums to Kloosterman sums

We apply a bound for very short Kloosterman type sums, due to A. A. Karatsuba, to deduce a bound for a mean-value of short sums of Dirichlet characters.     

Elementary Proof of an Estimate for Kloosterman Sums with Primes

A new elementary proof of an estimate for incomplete Kloosterman sums modulo a prime q is obtained. Along with Bourgain’s 2005 estimate of the double Kloosterman sum of a special form, it leads to an elementary derivation of an estimate for Kloosterman sums with primes for the case in which the length of the sum is of order q^0.5+ε, where ε is an arbitrarily small fixed number.