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On the biquadratic Gauss sum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Andrew D. McGettrick
Andrew D. McGettrick
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
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1. Professor J. W. S. Cassels (in (l)) recently enunciated a conjecture concerning Kummer sums. His conjecture suggests that there is a close connexion between the Kummer sum and a certain product of Weierstrass elliptic functions.

In this paper we consider the biquadratic Gauss sum. A theory similar to that used in (1) and in (4) suggests that there is a corresponding connexion between the biquadratic sum and a product of Jacobian elliptic functions. The enunciation of this conjecture appears in section 6. But first of all we require some preliminary results.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , January 1972 , pp. 79 - 83
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1972

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