Probabilistic study of Fermats quotients

DOI10.7169/FACM/2016.54.1.9MaRDI QIDQ1744943zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Georges Gras

Publication date 20 April 2018

Published in Functiones et Approximatio. Commentarii Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2815, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.facm/1458656166

zbMATH Keywords

Borel-Cantelli heuristiccyclotomic polynomialsFermat quotientsprime numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions in probabilistic number theory (11K65) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18)

Abstract: For a fixed integer a>1, we suggest that the probability of nullity of the p-Fermat quotient q(p,a) is much lower than 1/p for any arbitrary large prime number p. For this we use various heuristics, justified by means of numerical computations and analytical results, which may imply the finiteness of the q(p,a) equal to 0 and the existence of integers a such that q(p,a) is different from 0 for all p. However no proofs are obtained concerning these heuristics.

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