On the sixth power mean of the two-term exponential sums. (English) Zbl 1360.11084

Zhang, Wenpeng; Han, Di

J. Number Theory 136, 403-413 (2014).

Summary: The main purpose of this paper is using a new analytic method and the properties of Gauss sums to study the computational problem of one kind sixth power mean of two-term exponential sums, and give an interesting identity for it.

MSC:

11L03	Trigonometric and exponential sums (general theory)
11L05	Gauss and Kloosterman sums; generalizations

Keywords:

two-term exponential sums; sixth power mean; Gauss sums; identity

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