ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Gauss sums for orthogonal groups over a finite field of characteristic two

Authors 1, 2

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea
  2. Department of Mathematics, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea

Keywords

Gauss sum, multiplicative character, additive character, orthogonal group, Kloosterman sum, Bruhat decomposition, maximal parabolic subgroup, Clifford algebra

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Pages:
331-357
Main language of publication
English
Received
1997-01-17
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences