The primitive roots and a problem related to the Golomb conjecture
In this paper, we use elementary methods, properties of Gauss sums and estimates for character sums to study a problem related to primitive roots, and prove the following result. Let $p$ be a large enough odd prime. Then for any two distinct integers $a, b \in \{1, 2,\cdots, p-1\}$, there exist thre...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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AIMS Press
2020-05-01
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| Series: | AIMS Mathematics |
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| Online Access: | https://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/math.2020252/fulltext.html |
| Summary: | In this paper, we use elementary methods, properties of Gauss sums and estimates for character sums to study a problem related to primitive roots, and prove the following result. Let $p$ be a large enough odd prime. Then for any two distinct integers $a, b \in \{1, 2,\cdots, p-1\}$, there exist three primitive roots $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $\gamma$ modulo $p$ such that the congruence equations $\alpha+\gamma\equiv a\bmod p$ and $\beta+\gamma\equiv b\bmod p$ hold. |
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| ISSN: | 2473-6988 |