Quadratic non-residues that are not primitive roots

Tamiru Jarso, Tim Trudgian

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Abstract

We prove that any prime p satisfying ϕ(p-1) ≤ (p-1)/4 contains two consecutive quadratic non-residues modulo p neither of which is a primitive root modulo p. This improves on results by Luca et al. and Gun et al.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1251-1260
Number of pages10
JournalMathematics of Computation
Volume88
Issue number317
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes

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