Helleseth's three-valued conjecture
Helleseth's three-valued conjecture
Let be a finite field of characteristic , and let be an invertible exponent over . The Weil sum is called three-valued when it takes three distinct values.
Helleseth's three-valued conjecture. If is a power of , then there is no invertible exponent over such that is three-valued.
The conjecture concerns which finite fields support three-valued Weil sums. It was proved in characteristics and , 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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