New observations on primitive roots modulo primes
Abstract
We make many new observations on primitive roots modulo primes. For an odd prime and an integer , we establish a theorem concerning , where runs over all the primitive roots modulo among , and denotes the Legendre symbol. On the basis of our numerical computations, we formulate 35 conjectures involving primitive roots modulo primes. For example, we conjecture that for any prime there is a primitive root modulo with a square, and that for any prime there is a prime with the Bernoulli number a primitive root modulo . We also make related observations on quadratic nonresidues modulo primes and primitive prime divisors of some combinatorial sequences. For example, based on heuristic arguments we conjecture that for any prime there exists a Fibonacci number which is a quadratic nonresidue modulo ; this implies that there is a deterministic polynomial time algorithm to find square roots of quadratic residues modulo a prime .
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@article{arxiv.1405.0290,
title = {New observations on primitive roots modulo primes},
author = {Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0290},
year = {2020}
}
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23 pages