We establish upper bounds for certain trigonometric sums involving cosine powers. Part of these results extend previous ones valid for the sum . We apply our results to estimate character sums in an explicit and elementary way.
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Anastasios D. Simalarides. Upper bounds for certain trigonometric sums involving cosine powers. Colloquium Mathematicae, Tome 139 (2015) pp. 249-260. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-cm141-2-9/