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Uniform Distribution of Fractional Parts Related to Pseudoprimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

William D. Banks ,
Moubariz Z. Garaev ,
Florian Luca  and
Igor E. Shparlinski
William D. Banks
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA, bbanks@math.missouri.edu
Moubariz Z. Garaev
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P. 58089, Morelia, Michoacán, México, garaev@matmor.unam.mx, fluca@matmor.unam.mx
Florian Luca
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P. 58089, Morelia, Michoacán, México, garaev@matmor.unam.mx, fluca@matmor.unam.mx
Igor E. Shparlinski
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia, igor@ics.mq.edu.au
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We estimate exponential sums with the Fermat-like quotients

$${{f}_{g}}(n)=\frac{{{g}^{n-1}}-1}{n}\text{and }{{h}_{g}}(n)=\frac{{{g}^{n-1}}-1}{P(n)},$$

where $g$ and $n$ are positive integers, $n$ is composite, and $P\left( n \right)$ is the largest prime factor of $n$. Clearly, both ${{f}_{g}}(n)$ and ${{h}_{g}}(n)$ are integers if $n$ is a Fermat pseudoprime to base $g$, and if $n$ is a Carmichael number, this is true for all $g$ coprime to $n$. Nevertheless, our bounds imply that the fractional parts $\left\{ {{f}_{g}}(n) \right\}$ and $\left\{ {{h}_{g}}(n) \right\}$ are uniformly distributed, on average over $g$ for ${{f}_{g}}(n)$, and individually for ${{h}_{g}}(n)$. We also obtain similar results with the functions ${{\tilde{f}}_{g}}(n)=g\,{{f}_{g}}(n)$ and ${{\tilde{h}}_{g}}(n)=g{{h}_{g}}(n)$.

Keywords

11L0711N3711N60
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , 01 June 2009 , pp. 481 - 502
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2009

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