Department of Mathematics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 ; School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Abstract:
We prove a vanishing theorem for the -adic cohomology of exponential sums on . In particular, we obtain new classes of exponential sums on that have a single nonvanishing -adic cohomology group. The dimension of this cohomology group equals a sum of Milnor numbers.