Linear combinations of primitive elements of a finite field

DOI10.1016/J.FFA.2018.02.009MaRDI QIDQ1747936zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen D. Cohen, Tomás Oliveira E. Silva, Nicole Sutherland, Tim Trudgian

Publication date 27 April 2018

Published in Finite Fields and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06392

zbMATH Keywords

finite fieldsprimitive rootscharacter sumsprime sieve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trigonometric and exponential sums (general theory) (11L03) Exponential sums (11T23) Structure theory for finite fields and commutative rings (number-theoretic aspects) (11T30)

Abstract: We examine linear sums of primitive roots and their inverses in finite fields. In particular, we refine a result by Li and Han, and show that every $p>13$ has a pair of primitive roots $a$ and $b$ such that $a+b$ and $a^{-1}+b^{-1}$ are also primitive roots mod $p$.

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