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The least primitive root mod 2p2

Part of: Elementary number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

P. D. T. A. Elliott  and
L. Murata
P. D. T. A. Elliott
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 395, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0395, U.S.A.
L. Murata
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 395. Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0395, U.S.A.
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In 1918 Pólya and Vinogradov established the estimate for Dirichlet character sums that currently carries their names. It was forty years until Burgess gave an improvement of their bound [1], and it is forty years since that improvement.

MSC classification

Secondary: 11A07: Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , December 1998 , pp. 371 - 379
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1998

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