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The main purpose of this paper is to use elementary methods and properties of the classical Gauss sums to study the computational problem of one kind of fourth power mean of the generalized quadratic Gauss sums mod q (a positive odd number), and give an exact computational formula for it.
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Zhang, W.P., Lin, X. On the fourth power mean of the generalized quadratic Gauss sums. Acta. Math. Sin.-English Ser. 34, 1037–1049 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10114-017-7188-x
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