Abstract
We establish estimates for certain families of character sums over finite fields, including those which arise in Lillian Pierce's recent work [P] on estimating the 3-part of the class number of quadratic fields.

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Citation Information: Forum Mathematicum. Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 699–710, ISSN (Online) 1435-5337, ISSN (Print) 0933-7741, DOI: 10.1515/FORUM.2006.035, August 2006
We establish estimates for certain families of character sums over finite fields, including those which arise in Lillian Pierce's recent work [P] on estimating the 3-part of the class number of quadratic fields.
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