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On Zsigmondy primes

Author(s): Moshe Roitman
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 1913-1919.
MSC (1991): Primary 11A41
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Abstract: We present simple proofs of Walter Feit's results on large Zsigmondy primes.

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Moshe Roitman
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
Email: mroitman@mathcs2.haifa.ac.il

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03981-6
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03981-6
Received by editor(s): December 19, 1995
Additional Notes: I thank Yakov Berkovich for suggesting this subject and for useful discussions concerning it.
Communicated by: Ronald M. Solomon
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society

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