ON SOME EXPONENTIAL SUMS
ON SOME EXPONENTIAL SUMS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.34.5.204
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发表时间:
1948-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
WEIL, A
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作者:
WEIL, A
MATHEMATICS: A. WEIL metrically, this is the function-field, over the ground-field k, of a projective straight line. On that straight line, we consider divisors, ie, formal sums of points with integral (positive or negative) coefficients; and we limit ourselves, once for all, to divisors which are rational over k, ie, such that conjugate points over k have the same coefficient. A divisor is called finite if it does not contain the point at infinity with a non-zero coefficient. Except for the notation, finite positive divisors are essentially the same as ideals in the ring k [t]; to every such divisor a, we attach the polynomial Pa (t)= tn+ altn-1+...+ an which generates the corresponding ideal, ie, whose zeros are the points in a, with multiplicities respectively equal to their coefficients in a; as a is assumed to be rational over k, Pa (t) has its coefficients in k; and n is the degree of a. Every finite divisor m can be written as m= a-b, where a, b are finite positive divisors; to m, we attach the function Rm (t)= Pa (t)/Pb (t); we have m-0 if and only if a and b, ie, Pa (t) and PN (t), are ofthe same degree, and then there is one and only one function in k (t) having m as its divisor and taking the value 1 at infinity, viz., Rm (t) itself.Let x be a character of the multiplicative group k* of the non-zero elements in k. Let b be a finite divisor, consisting of the points t, with the coefficients a,; if R (t) is in k (t), we shall write R (b)= H1, R (,) ap whenever none of the R (%) is 0 or co; as b is rational over k, R (b) is in k. We shall assume that no a, is a multiple of the order of x. Furthermore, let w be a character of the multiplicative group of power series in an indeterminate T with coefficients in k; we assume that w has the value 1 for every series reduced to a monomial cTz. According to the usual definition, we say that co has the conductor (TN) if it has the value 1 for every power-series which is= 1 mod. TN, and if N is the smallest integer with that property. Then the values of X are ps-th roots of unity, if p is the characteristic of k, and s is such that ps) N. We shallwrite, for xe k, X (x)= w (1-xT). To every function R (t) in k (t), we can attach a power-series R (1/T), arising from the expansion of the rationalfunction R (1/T) according to increasing powers of T; this is no other than the usual expansion of R (t) at infinity. Then w [R (1/T)] is defined; in particular, as co (T)= 1, we have co [(I-xT)/T]= X (x). Now, for every finite divisor m with no point in common with b, we write