In this paper, explicit determination of the cyclotomic numbers of order l and 2l, for odd prime l ≡ 3 (mod 4), over finite field Fq in the index 2 case are obtained, utilizing the explicit formulas on the corresponding Gauss sums. The main results in this paper are related with the number of rational points of certain elliptic curve, called "Legendre curve", and the properties and value distribution of such number are also presented.
Let Fq be a finite field of odd characteristic, m, ν the integers with 1≤m≤ν and Ka 2ν× 2ν nonsingular alternate matrix over Fq. In this paper, the generalized symplectic graph GSp2ν (q, m) relative to K over Fq is introduced. It is the graph with m-dimensional totally isotropic subspaces of the 2ν-dimensional symplectic space F(2ν)q as its vertices and two vertices P and Q are adjacent if and only if the rank of PKQT is 1 and the dimension of P ∩ Q is m-1. It is proved that the full automorphism group of the graph GSp2ν(q, m) is the projective semilinear symplectic group PΣp(2ν, q).