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### How can a subfield of an abelian extension fail to be cyclic when subjected to a norm-like condition. (How can I understand the supplied explanation)

I recently posted a question on MathOverflow (if you're interested it can be found here). While some answers were quickly produced there were a few points that I found confusing. I requested some ...
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### Intuition regarding Chevalley-Warning Theorem

Three versions of the theorem are stated on pages 1-2 in these notes by Pete L. Clark: http://math.uga.edu/~pete/4400ChevalleyWarning.pdf Could anyone offer some intuitive way to think about this ...
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### What is the intuition behind Gauss sums?

Let $\chi$ be a character on the field $F_p$, and fix some $a \in F_p$. We define a Gauss sum to be: $g_a (\chi) = \sum_{t\in F_p}\chi(t)\zeta^{at}$ where $\zeta$ is a primitive $p^{th}$ root of ...
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