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Polynomial solutions of binomial congruences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

H. Lindgren
H. Lindgren
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Patent Office, Canberra.
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Polynomial solutions of a few binomial congruences have been known for a long time. For instance Legendre showed that the congruence has a solution this being the expansion of as far as the term of degree m — 3. [1] It seems that only restricted types, e.g. (1), have been investigated.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , August 1960 , pp. 257 - 280
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1960

References

[1]Proved in Uspensky, J. V. and Heaslet, M. A., Elementary Number Theory, pp. 311–4.Google Scholar
For further polynomial and other explict solutions see Dickson, L. E., History of the Theory of Numbers, vol. 1, ch. VII.Google Scholar
[2]Nagell, T., Introduction to Number Theory, p. 118, Theorem 71.Google Scholar
[3]Uspensky, and Heaslet, , Elementary Number Theory, p. 103, ex. 1. Proved in Griffin H., Elementary Theory of Numbers, pp. 42–3.Google Scholar
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[5]Nagell, , Introduction to Number Theory, p. 104, Theorem 63.Google Scholar
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