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On Grosswald's conjecture on primitive roots
Grosswald's conjecture is that , the least primitive root modulo ,
satisfies for all . We make progress towards
this conjecture by proving that for all and for all .Comment: 7 page
On consecutive primitive elements in a finite field
For an odd prime power with we prove that there are always three
consecutive primitive elements in the finite field . Indeed,
there are precisely eleven values of for which this is false. For
we present conjectures on the size of such that
guarantees the existence of consecutive primitive elements in
, provided that has characteristic at
least~. Finally, we improve the upper bound on for all .Comment: 10 pages, 2 table
A proof of the conjecture of Cohen and Mullen on sums of primitive roots
We prove that for all , every non-zero element in the finite field
can be written as a linear combination of two primitive roots
of . This resolves a conjecture posed by Cohen and Mullen.Comment: 8 pages; to appear in Mathematics of Computatio
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