Gaussian Mersenne Primes of the form $x^2+dy^2$
Number Theory
2014-09-23 v7
Abstract
In this paper we study Gaussian ring with a focus on representing Gaussian Mersenne primes in the form . Interestingly when such a form exists, one can observe that, and . To prove this property of Gaussian Mersenne primes, we show that Gaussian Mersenne primes splits completely in the cyclic quartic unramified extension of and have a trivial Artin symbol in this extension. We generalize this result for . We also attempt to give an alternate proof using Artin's reciprocity law, which was earlier given by H. W. Lenstra and P. Stevenhagen to prove a similar property on ordinary Mersenne Primes.
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@article{arxiv.1401.6656,
title = {Gaussian Mersenne Primes of the form $x^2+dy^2$},
author = {Sushma Palimar and Ambedkar Dukkipati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6656},
year = {2014}
}
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