A note on Linnik’s theorem on quadratic non-residues

We present a short and purely combinatorial proof of Linnik’s theorem: for any ε>0 there exists a constant Cε such that for any N, there are at most Cε primes p≤N such that the least positive quadratic non-residue modulo p exceeds Nε .

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Balister, P, Bollobás, B, Lee, J, Morris, R, Riordan, O
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer International Publishing 2019