On Two Conjectures of Chowla

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Mod P

Let p denote a prime and n a positive integer ≥ 2. Let Nn(p) denote the number of polynomials xn + x + a, a = 1, 2,…, p-l, which are irreducible (mod p). Chowla [5] has made the following two conjectures:Conjecture 1. There is a prime p0(n), depending only on n, such that for all primes p ≥ p0(n)

Bounds on the N-th Power Residues (Mod P)

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 679-680
Author(s):  
S. Chowla ◽  
H. London
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Mod P

For p a prime ≡ 1 (mod n), where n is an odd positive integer, let k(p, n) denote the least integer k such that the numbers xn and (-x)n, where x = 1,2,…, k, yield all the non-zero n-th power residues (mod p) (possibly with repetitions). Clearly

The Kloosterman Sum Revisited

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Kloosterman Sum ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Mod P

Let p be an odd prime, n an integer not divisible by p and α a positive integer. For any integer h with (h,pα)=l, is defined as any solution of the congruence (mod,pα). The Kloosterman sum Ap α(n) (see for example [4]) is defined by(1.1)where the dash (') indicates that the letter of summation runs only through a reduced residue system with respect to the modulus.

Congruences involving alternating harmonic sums modulo pα qβ

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 975-980
Author(s):  
Zhongyan Shen ◽  
Tianxin Cai
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Positive Integers ◽  
Mod P

Abstract In 2014, Wang and Cai established the following harmonic congruence for any odd prime p and positive integer r, $$\sum_{\begin{subarray}{c}i+j+k=p^{r}\\ i,j,k\in\mathcal{P}_{p}\end{subarray}}\frac{1}{ijk}\equiv-2p^{r-1}B_{p-3} \quad\quad(\text{mod} \,\, {p^{r}}),$$ where $ \mathcal{P}_{n} $ denote the set of positive integers which are prime to n. In this note, we obtain the congruences for distinct odd primes p, q and positive integers α, β, $$ \sum_{\begin{subarray}{c}i+j+k=p^{\alpha}q^{\beta}\\ i,j,k\in\mathcal{P}_{2pq}\end{subarray}}\frac{1}{ijk}\equiv\frac{7}{8}\left(2-% q\right)\left(1-\frac{1}{q^{3}}\right)p^{\alpha-1}q^{\beta-1}B_{p-3}\pmod{p^{% \alpha}} $$ and $$ \sum_{\begin{subarray}{c}i+j+k=p^{\alpha}q^{\beta}\\ i,j,k\in\mathcal{P}_{pq}\end{subarray}}\frac{(-1)^{i}}{ijk}\equiv\frac{1}{2}% \left(q-2\right)\left(1-\frac{1}{q^{3}}\right)p^{\alpha-1}q^{\beta-1}B_{p-3}% \pmod{p^{\alpha}}. $$

scholarly journals The Divisibility of Divisor Functions

1961 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Divisor Functions ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Positive Integers

For any positive integers n and v letwhere d runs through all the positive divisors of n. For each positive integer k and real x > 1, denote by N(v, k; x) the number of positive integers n ≦ x for which σv(n) is not divisible by k. Then Watson [6] has shown that, when v is odd,as x → ∞; it is assumed here and throughout that v and k are fixed and independent of x. It follows, in particular, that σ (n) is almost always divisible by k. A brief account of the ideas used by Watson will be found in § 10.6 of Hardy's book on Ramanujan [2].

The Distribution Of Totatives

1955 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 347-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Lehmer
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Prime Factors ◽  
Image Position

This paper is concerned with the numbers which are relatively prime to a given positive integerwhere the p's are the distinct prime factors of n. Since these numbers recur periodically with period n, it suffices to study the ϕ(n) numbers ≤n and relatively prime to n.

scholarly journals An algebraically closed field

1968 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Power Series ◽  
Formal Power Series ◽  
Characteristic Zero ◽  
Closed Field ◽  
Algebraically Closed Field ◽  
Zero Characteristic ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Formal Power ◽  
Puiseux Expansions

Letkbe any algebraically closed field, and denote byk((t)) the field of formal power series in one indeterminatetoverk. Letso thatKis the field of Puiseux expansions with coefficients ink(each element ofKis a formal power series intl/rfor some positive integerr). It is well-known thatKis algebraically closed if and only ifkis of characteristic zero [1, p. 61]. For examples relating to ramified extensions of fields with valuation [9, §6] it is useful to have a field analogous toKwhich is algebraically closed whenkhas non-zero characteristicp. In this paper, I prove that the setLof all formal power series of the form Σaitei(where (ei) is well-ordered,ei=mi|nprt,n∈ Ζ,mi∈ Ζ,ai∈k,ri∈ Ν) forms an algebraically closed field.

scholarly journals An Integral involving a Modified Bessel Function of the Second Kind and an E-function

1953 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad M. Ragab
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Bessel Function ◽  
Modified Bessel Function ◽  
Image Position

§ 1. Introductory. The formula to be established iswhere m is a positive integer,and the constants are such that the integral converges.

scholarly journals Integrals involving products of modified Bessel functions of the second kind

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Ragab
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Bessel Functions ◽  
Modified Bessel Functions ◽  
Image Position

It is proposed to establish the two following integrals.where n is a positive integer, x is real and positive, μi and ν are complex, and Δ (n; a) represents the set of parameterswhere n is a positive integer and x is real and positive.

Determining a Set from the Cardinalities of its Intersections with Other Sets

1964 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 94-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Cantor
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Image Position

Let n be a positive integer and put N = {1, 2, . . . , n}. A collection {S1, S2, . . . , St} of subsets of N is called determining if, for any T ⊂ N, the cardinalities of the t intersections T ∩ Sj determine T uniquely. Let €1, €2, . . . , €n be n variables with range {0, 1}. It is clear that a determining collection {Sj) has the property that the sums

Note Upon The Generalized Cayleyan Operator

1949 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Original Proof ◽  
Image Position

The following note which deals with the effect of a certain determinantal operator when it acts upon a product of determinants was suggested by the original proof which Dr. Alfred Young gave of the propertysubsisting between the positive P and the negative N substitutional operators, θ being a positive integer. This result which establishes the idempotency of the expression θ−1NP within an appropriate algebra is fundamental in the Quantitative Substitutional Analysis that Young developed.

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