On a kind of character sums and their recurrence properties
Volume 185 / 2018
Acta Arithmetica 185 (2018), 347-355
MSC: Primary 11L40, 11L10.
DOI: 10.4064/aa171005-25-12
Published online: 24 July 2018
Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to use the analytic method and the properties of the classical Gauss sums to study a kind of character sums modulo an odd prime $p$, and give an interesting recurrence formula for them.