Note on Artin's Conjecture on Primitive Roots

E. Artin conjectured that any integer $a > 1$ which is not a perfect square is a primitive root modulo $p$ for infinitely many primes $ p.$ Let $f_a(p)$ be the multiplicative order of the non-square integer $a$ modulo the prime $p.$ M. R. Murty and S. Srinivasan \cite{Murty-Srinivasan} showed that if $\displaystyle \sum_{p < x} \frac 1 {f_a(p)} = O(x^{1/4})$ then Artin's conjecture is true for $a.$ We relate the Murty-Srinivasan condition to sums involving the cyclotomic periods from the subfields of $\mathbb Q(e^{2\pi i /p})$ corresponding to the subgroups $<a> \subseteq \mathbb F_p^*.$

A Note on the Primitive Roots and the Golomb Conjecture

In this paper, we use the elementary methods and the estimates for character sums to prove the following conclusion. Let p be a prime large enough. Then, for any positive integer n with p 1 / 2 + ɛ ≤ n < p , there must exist two primitive roots α and β modulo p with 1 < α , β ≤ n − 1 such that the equation n = α + β holds, where 0 < ɛ < 1 / 2 is a fixed positive number. In other words, n can be expressed as the exact sum of two primitive roots modulo p .

On Pythagorean Triples and the Primitive Roots Modulo a Prime

In this paper, we use the elementary methods and the estimates for character sums to study a problem related to primitive roots and the Pythagorean triples and prove the following result: let p be an odd prime large enough. Then, there must exist three primitive roots x , y , and z modulo p such that x 2 + y 2 = z 2 .

Explicit upper bound on the least primitive root modulo p2

In this paper, we give an explicit upper bound on [Formula: see text], the least primitive root modulo [Formula: see text]. Since a primitive root modulo [Formula: see text] is not primitive modulo [Formula: see text] if and only if it belongs to the set of integers less than [Formula: see text] which are [Formula: see text]th power residues modulo [Formula: see text], we seek the bounds for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] to find [Formula: see text] which satisfies [Formula: see text], where, [Formula: see text] denotes the number of primitive roots modulo [Formula: see text] not exceeding [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] denotes the number of [Formula: see text]th powers modulo [Formula: see text] not exceeding [Formula: see text]. The method we mainly use is to estimate the character sums contained in the expressions of the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] above. Finally, we show that [Formula: see text] for all primes [Formula: see text]. This improves the recent result of Kerr et al.

Consecutive square-free numbers and square-free primitive roots

Let [Formula: see text] be a positive integer and let [Formula: see text] be an odd prime. For [Formula: see text], we study the distribution of consecutive square-free numbers of the forms [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]. In addition, we study the distribution of consecutive square-free primitive roots modulo [Formula: see text] of the forms [Formula: see text],[Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], respectively.