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In this paper it is proved that the arguments of the Gauss sum associated with sixth powers do not constitute an everywhere dense set. A lower bound to the corresponding trigonometric sums is also obtained.
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Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 173–178, August, 2000.
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Garaev, M.Z. On the gauss trigonometric sum. Math Notes 68, 154–158 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02675340
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02675340