Helleseth's three-valued conjecture

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Let FF be a finite field of characteristic pp, and let dd be an invertible exponent over FF. The Weil sum WF,dW_{F,d} is called three-valued when it takes three distinct values.

Helleseth's three-valued conjecture. If [F:Fp][F:{\mathbb F}_p] is a power of 22, then there is no invertible exponent dd over FF such that WF,dW_{F,d} is three-valued.

The conjecture concerns which finite fields support three-valued Weil sums. It was proved in characteristics 22 and 33, while the supplied status evidence indicates that the general conjecture has been resolved.

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Primary source

Daniel J. Katz, “Weil sums of binomials: properties, applications, and open problems”, arXiv:1805.10452 (2018).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1412.8530, arXiv:1407.7923.

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