A decade ago in this journal B. W. Brewer defined a sequence of polynomials
V
n
(
x
,
1
)
{V_n}(x,1)
and for
n
=
4
n = 4
and 5 evaluated
\[
∑
x
=
1
p
χ
(
V
n
(
x
,
1
)
)
,
\sum \limits _{x = 1}^p {{}_\chi ({V_n}(x,1))},
\]
χ
\chi
the nonprincipal quadratic character of the prime
p
p
, in closed form. A. L Whiteman derived these results by means of cyclotomy. Brewer subsequently defined
V
n
(
x
,
Q
)
{V_n}(x,Q)
. This paper applies cyclotomy to the more general polynomials and provides evaluations for several more values of
n
n
. Relevant quadratic decompositions of primes are studied.
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