Moments and Large Geometric Monodromy for Linearly Constrained Kloosterman Families
Let $q=p^a$ with $p$ prime, $\lambda\in\mathbb F_p^\times$, and $\psi_q=\psi\circ\mathrm{Tr}_{\mathbb F_q/\mathbb F_p}$ for a nontrivial additive character $\psi$ of $\mathbb F_p$. For $n\ge2$ we study $\Sigma_n(h)=\sum_{u\in(\mathbb F_q^\times)^n,\sum_i h_i u_i=-\lambda}\psi_q(\sum_i u_i^{-1})$. On $\mathbb G_m^n$ we...