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Exercise 11.18
Let the notation be as in Exercise 16. Use the Hasse-Davenport relation to show that , where the are non trivial characters of and .
Answers
Proof. Note that , thus .
The conditions on the characters, and Exercise 16, show that and . By Theorem 3 of Chapter 8,
Then the Hasse-Davenport relation gives
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