A character sum evaluation and Gaussian hypergeometric series

J. Greene; D. Stanton

doi:10.1016/0022-314X(86)90009-0

A character sum evaluation and Gaussian hypergeometric series

J. Greene, D. Stanton

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Evans has conjectured the value of a certain character sum. The conjecture is confirmed using properties of Gaussian hypergeometric series which are well known for hypergeometric series. Several related questions are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	136-148
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Number Theory
Volume	23
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-314X(86)90009-0
State	Published - May 1986

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* Partially supported by NSF Grant ~CS-83~872.

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