{ "id": "1309.1726", "version": "v1", "published": "2013-09-06T18:35:41.000Z", "updated": "2013-09-06T18:35:41.000Z", "title": "The distribution of values of short hybrid exponential sums on curves over finite fields", "authors": [ "Kit-Ho Mak", "Alexandru Zaharescu" ], "comment": "20 pages", "journal": "Math. Res. Lett. 18 (2011), no. 01, 155--174", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "Let $p$ be a prime number, $X$ be an absolutely irreducible affine plane curve over $\\mathbb{F}_p$, and $g,f\\in\\mathbb{F}_p(x,y)$. We study the distribution of the values of the hybrid exponential sums S_n on $n\\in\\mathcal{I}$ for some short interval $\\mathcal{I}$. We show that under some natural conditions the limiting distribution of the projections of the sum $S_n$, $n\\in\\mathcal{I}$ on any straight line through the origin is Gaussian as $p$ tends to infinity.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2013-09-06T18:35:41.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11G20", "11T23", "11T24" ], "keywords": [ "short hybrid exponential sums", "finite fields", "distribution", "absolutely irreducible affine plane curve", "prime number" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 20, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013arXiv1309.1726M" } } }