On the modular Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant
Combinatorics
2018-07-20 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
Let be a positive integer. For any integer , we say that is idempotent modulo if . The -modular Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant is the smallest positive integer such that any integers contain one or more integers whose product is idempotent modulo . We gave a sharp lower bound of the -modular Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant, in particular, we determined the -modular Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant in the case when is a prime power or a product of pairwise distinct primes.
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@article{arxiv.1807.07266,
title = {On the modular Erd\H{o}s-Burgess constant},
author = {Jun Hao and Haoli Wang and Lizhen Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07266},
year = {2018}
}
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6 pages