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 in a dyadic interval for which a given interval does not contain a quadratic non-residue modulo . The bound is nontrivial for any function as . This is an analogue of the well known estimates on the smallest quadratic non-residue modulo on average over primes , which corresponds to the choice .
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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}
}