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We give a reduction formula for the Waring number g(k, q) over a finite field \(\mathbb {F}_q\). By exploiting the relation between g(k, q) with the diameter of the generalized Paley graph \(\Gamma (k,q)\) and by using the characterization due to Pearce and Praeger (2019) of those \(\Gamma (k,q)\) which are Cartesian decomposable, we obtain the reduction formula
for p prime and a, b, c positive integers under certain arithmetic conditions. Then, we find some arithmetic conditions to apply the formula above, which allow us to obtain many infinite families of explicit values of Waring numbers. Finally, we use the reduction formula together with the characterization of 2-weight irreducible cyclic codes due to Schmidt and White (2002) to find infinite families of explicit even values of g(k, q).
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Podestá, R.A., Videla, D.E. A reduction formula for Waring numbers through generalized Paley graphs. J Algebr Comb 56, 1255–1285 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-022-01154-x
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