Abstract
Character sums occur all over the place in many different roles. In this chapter they will be used at once to represent certain principal ideals, thus giving rise to annihilators in a group ring for ideal classes in cyclotomic fields.
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Lang, S. (1978). Character Sums. In: Cyclotomic Fields. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 59. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9945-5_1
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