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Character sums on an oriented singer conic and explicit Ramanujan double covers

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 12 references
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Abstract

Let $q$ be odd. The trace conic in $\mathbb{F}_{q^3}$ determines a Singer difference set in $\mathbb{F}_{q^3}^\times / \mathbb{F}_q^\times$ and a natural square-class lift to $\mathbb{F}_{q^3}^\times / \mathbb{F}_q^{\times 2}$. We study the odd multiplicative Fourier coefficients of this lift and prove that they are bounded in absolute value by $2\sqrt{q}$. The proof improves the naive six-puncture Weil bound by exploiting a projective Klein-four symmetry of the associated rank-one local system. The resulting nontrivial cocycle produces a quaternionic action on its four-dimensional cohomology, while Frobenius symmetry reduces the relevant trace to two Weil-scale eigenvalues. As an application, the oriented conic yields an explicit Singer-invariant signing of the point-line incidence graph of $\mathrm{PG}(2, q)$. The corresponding dihedral Cayley graph is a connected Ramanujan double cover. Thus a conic lift already known in finite-geometric constructions has an additional Ramanujan spectral property governed by its odd multiplicative character sums.

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