Least totients in arithmetic progressions
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Abstract:
Let $N(a,m)$ be the least integer $n$ (if it exists) such that $\varphi (n)\equiv a\pmod m$. Friedlander and Shparlinski proved that for any $\varepsilon >0$ there exists $A=A(\varepsilon )>0$ such that for any positive integer $m$ which has no prime divisors $p<(\log m)^A$ and any integer $a$ with $\gcd (a,m)=1,$ we have the bound $N(a,m)\ll m^{3+\varepsilon }.$ In the present paper we improve this bound to $N(a,m)\ll m^{2+\varepsilon }.$References
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Additional Information
- Javier Cilleruelo
- Affiliation: Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM) and Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid-28049, Spain
- MR Author ID: 292544
- Email: franciscojavier.cilleruelo@uam.es
- Moubariz Z. Garaev
- Affiliation: Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia, Apartado Postal 61-3 (Xangari), C.P. 58089, Morelia, Michoacán, México
- MR Author ID: 632163
- Email: garaev@matmor.unam.mx
- Received by editor(s): October 28, 2008
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 18, 2008, and December 22, 2008
- Published electronically: March 5, 2009
- Additional Notes: During the preparation of this paper, the first author was supported by Grant MTM 2005-04730 of MYCIT
- Communicated by: Wen-Ching Winnie Li
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 2913-2919
- MSC (2000): Primary 11B50, 11L40; Secondary 11N64
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09864-5
- MathSciNet review: 2506449