Quadratic residues and quartic residues modulo primes
Number Theory
2020-09-11 v8
Abstract
In this paper we study some products related to quadratic residues and quartic residues modulo primes. Let p be an odd prime and let A be any integer. We mainly determine completely the product fp(A):=p∤i2−Aij−j21≤i,j≤(p−1)/2∏(i2−Aij−j2) modulo p; for example, if p≡1(mod4) then fp(A)≡{−(A2+4)(p−1)/4(modp)(−A2−4)(p−1)/4(modp)if (pA2+4)=1,if (pA2+4)=−1, where (p⋅) denotes the Legendre symbol. We also determine p∤2i2+5ij+2j2i,j=1∏(p−1)/2(2i2+5ij+2j2) and p∤2i2−5ij+2j2i,j=1∏(p−1)/2(2i2−5ij+2j2) modulo p.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.12102,
title = {Quadratic residues and quartic residues modulo primes},
author = {Zhi-Wei Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12102},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
22 pages, final version