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An inverse theorem for Gowers norms of trace functions over Fp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2013

ÉTIENNE FOUVRY
Affiliation:
Université Paris Sud, Laboratoire de Mathématique, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. e-mail: etienne.fouvry@math.u-psud.fr
EMMANUEL KOWALSKI
Affiliation:
ETH Zürich – D-MATH, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland. e-mail: kowalski@math.ethz.ch
PHILIPPE MICHEL
Affiliation:
EPFL/SB/IMB/TAN, Station 8, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. e-mail: philippe.michel@epfl.ch

Abstract

We study the Gowers uniformity norms of functions over Z/pZ which are trace functions of ℓ-adic sheaves. On the one hand, we establish a strong inverse theorem for these functions, and on the other hand this gives many explicit examples of functions with Gowers norms of size comparable to that of “random” functions.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2013 

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