Quadratic residues of certain types

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181069349MaRDI QIDQ2477928zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexandru Gica

Publication date 14 March 2008

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181069349

zbMATH Keywords

lengthnumerous idoneusquadratic residue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Power residues, reciprocity (11A15) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Review text

In this paper, the author proves that if \(p\) is a prime not in \(\{2,3,5,7,13,37\}\), then there is a prime \(q\equiv 1\pmod 4\) which is smaller than \(p\) and is a quadratic residue modulo \(p\). He also proves a similar theorem for primes \(q\equiv 3\pmod 4\) except that now the list of forbidden values of \(p\) is \(\{2,3,5,7,17\}\). The proof of the first result combines clever elementary arguments with nonelementary results concerning Euler's convenient numbers, as well as the classification of imaginary quadratic fields of class number \(2\), while the proof of the second statement is elementary. The paper is well written and easy to read.

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