History of Kloosterman sums modulo a prime

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2026-09-04 14:22 bmatschke the table discussed the issue that asked for it; the mathematics stays, the request goes to the issue, where it was answered current reviewed
2026-09-03 15:57 zeta3 formula (8), the Legendre-symbol form, is stated for every a rather than for squares only, checked in balls at all 616 (p, a); the Jacobi symbol in Salie's formula is named; "no entry here is +-2 sqrt p" becomes the theorem it is, by the conjugates and the second moment; "its conjugate" in the rigou
2026-09-03 15:37 zeta3 with Claude Code, table-build@839 Kloosterman sums K(a; p) for every prime 5 <= p <= 71 and every a modulo p, summed in ball arithmetic from the definition and checked against Sage's exact Kloosterman sum, the two Galois orbits and four moment identities at every prime
2026-09-03 15:37 zeta3 checking that this table can be written to
2026-09-03 15:36 zeta3 with Claude Code, table-build@8390298, run 20260903T151206Z draft: Kloosterman sums modulo a prime, proposal 4 of BATCH-2026-09-03T1011

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     more than the second moment $p^2-p-1$ in CITE{formula-moments}. No simple closed     form for $K(a;p)$ at a prime is known.'-  comment-twisted: The issue this table answers CITE{issue13} asks for Kloosterman-    sums of Dirichlet characters, $K(a,b,\chi;p)=\sum_{x=1}^{p-1}\chi(x)\,e^{2\pi-    i(ax+b\bar x)/p}$, which for the trivial character $\chi$ is $K(a,b;p)$ and for-    a nontrivial $\chi$ is in general not real; for the quadratic character it is-    a SaliƩ sum. The entries here are the sums for the trivial character. The LMFDB's-    page for a character CITE{LMFDB} computes its twisted sums to ten decimals, and-    the values it gives for the trivial character agree with the entries.+  comment-twisted: The twisted Kloosterman sum $K(a,b,\chi;p)=\sum_{x=1}^{p-1}\chi(x)\,e^{2\pi+    i(ax+b\bar x)/p}$ is $K(a,b;p)$ for the trivial character $\chi$ and in general+    not real for a nontrivial one; for the quadratic character it is a SaliƩ sum.+    The entries here are the sums for the trivial character. The LMFDB's page for+    a character CITE{LMFDB} computes its twisted sums to ten decimals, and the values+    it gives for the trivial character agree with the entries. Formulas:   formula-two-parameters: $K(a,b;m)=K(b,a;m)$, and $K(ac,b;m)=K(a,bc;m)$ for $\gcd(c,m)=1$;
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     bib: H. Iwaniec and E. Kowalski, Analytic Number Theory, American Mathematical       Society Colloquium Publications 53, 2004.-  issue13:-    bib: 'numberdb-data issue #13, "Kloosterman sums of Dirichlet characters", https://github.com/numberdb/numberdb-data/issues/13' Tags: - algebraic 

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