Type: Article
Publication Date: 2019-05-16
Citations: 13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2019-0034
Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to use analytic methods and properties of quartic Gauss sums to study a special fourth power mean of a two-term exponential sums mod p , with p an odd prime, and prove interesting new identities. As an application of our results, we also obtain a sharp asymptotic formula for the fourth power mean.