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When a Gauss sum is the square root of a prime number, multiplied by a root of unity
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mathematics
number theory
Gauss sum
square root
prime number
root of unity
Sarvadaman Chowla
Louis Mordell
Dirichlet character
modulo
complex numbers
if and only if
quadratic residue symbol
Gauss
functional equation of L-functions
Bruce C. Berndt
Categories
Cyclotomic fields
Zeta and L-functions
Theorems in number theory

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