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Quadratic Non-residues in Short Intervals

Number Theory 2013-11-28 v1

Abstract

We use the Burgess bound and combinatorial sieve to obtain an upper bound on the number of primes pp in a dyadic interval [Q,2Q][Q,2Q] for which a given interval [u+1,u+ψ(Q)][u+1,u+\psi(Q)] does not contain a quadratic non-residue modulo pp. The bound is nontrivial for any function ψ(Q)\psi(Q)\to\infty as QQ\to\infty. This is an analogue of the well known estimates on the smallest quadratic non-residue modulo pp on average over primes pp, which corresponds to the choice u=0u=0.

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@article{arxiv.1311.7016,
  title  = {Quadratic Non-residues in Short Intervals},
  author = {Sergei V. Konyagin and Igor E. Shparlinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7016},
  year   = {2013}
}
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