A problem of R. K. Guy

MaRDI QIDQ1344607zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Zhiyong Zheng

Publication date 13 February 1995

Published in Chinese Science Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

real primitive character

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Power residues, reciprocity (11A15)

Review text

The author gives an elementary proof of the following theorem: Let \(q \geq 3\) be an odd integer, \(\chi\) be a real primitive character modulo \(q\) such that \(\chi(-1) = -1\). Then \(\sum^{(q - 1)/2}_{n = 1} \chi(n) > 0\). This result implies that, for a prime \(p \equiv 3 \bmod 4\), \[ \left| \left\{ 1 \leq n \leq {p-1\over 2};\;\left( {n\over p}\right) = 1\right\} \right| > \left | \left\{ {p+1\over 2} \leq n \leq p,\;\left( {n\over p}\right) = 1\right\}\right |. \]

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