Home Mathematics On a question of Lillian Pierce
Article
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

On a question of Lillian Pierce

  • Nicholas M Katz EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: August 14, 2006
Forum Mathematicum
From the journal Volume 18 Issue 4

Abstract

We establish estimates for certain families of character sums over finite fields, including those which arise in Lillian Pierce's recent work [P] on estimating the 3-part of the class number of quadratic fields.


(Communicated by Peter Sarnak)


Received: 2004-07-19
Published Online: 2006-08-14
Published in Print: 2006-07-01

© Walter de Gruyter

Downloaded on 15.2.2026 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/FORUM.2006.035/html
Scroll to top button