Strongly regular Cayley graphs and rationality of relative Gauss sums

In this note, we give a construction of strongly regular Cayley graphs. The presented construction is based on choosing cyclotomic classes in finite fields, and our results generalize ten of the eleven sporadic examples of cyclotomic strongly regular graphs given by Schmidt and White [B. Schmidt, C. White, All two-weight irreducible cyclic codes, Finite Fields Appl. 8 (2002), 321–367] into infinite families. These infinite families of strongly regular graphs have new parameters. The main tools that we employed are relative Gauss sums instead of explicit evaluations of Gauss sums.