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 . 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.
Cite
@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