Exponential Sums, Cyclic Codes and Sequences: the Odd Characteristic Kasami Case

Jinquan Luo, Yuansheng Tang, Hongyu Wang

Let $q=p^n$ with $n=2m$ and $p$ be an odd prime. Let $0\le k\le n-1$ and $k\ne m$. In this paper we determine the value distribution of following exponential(character) sums \[\…