On balanced subgroups of the multiplicative group

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Abstract: A subgroup H of G=(Z/dZ)^* is called balanced if every coset of H is evenly distributed between the lower and upper halves of G, i.e., has equal numbers of elements with representatives in (0,d/2) and (d/2,d). This notion has applications to ranks of elliptic curves. We give a simple criterion in terms of characters for a subgroup H to be balanced, and for a fixed integer p, we study the distribution of integers d such that the cyclic subgroup of (Z/dZ)^* generated by p is balanced.











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