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Fast tabulation of challenge pseudoprimes

Number Theory 2019-02-13 v1

Abstract

We provide a new algorithm for tabulating composite numbers which are pseudoprimes to both a Fermat test and a Lucas test. Our algorithm is optimized for parameter choices that minimize the occurrence of pseudoprimes, and for pseudoprimes with a fixed number of prime factors. Using this, we have confirmed that there are no PSW challenge pseudoprimes with two or three prime factors up to 2802^{80}. In the case where one is tabulating challenge pseudoprimes with a fixed number of prime factors, we prove our algorithm gives an unconditional asymptotic improvement over previous methods.

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@article{arxiv.1806.08697,
  title  = {Fast tabulation of challenge pseudoprimes},
  author = {Andrew Shallue and Jonathan Webster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.08697},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

12 pages, accepted to ANTS-XIII

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