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An elliptic curve analogue of Pillai’s lower bound on primitive roots

Part of: Curves Arithmetic algebraic geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2021

Steven Jin  and
Lawrence C. Washington
Steven Jin*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA e-mail: lcw@umd.edu
Lawrence C. Washington
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA e-mail: lcw@umd.edu
*
e-mail: sjin6816@umd.edu
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Abstract

Let $E/\mathbb {Q}$ be an elliptic curve. For a prime p of good reduction, let $r(E,p)$ be the smallest non-negative integer that gives the x-coordinate of a point of maximal order in the group $E(\mathbb {F}_p)$ . We prove unconditionally that $r(E,p)> 0.72\log \log p$ for infinitely many p, and $r(E,p)> 0.36 \log p$ under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis. These can be viewed as elliptic curve analogues of classical lower bounds on the least primitive root of a prime.

Keywords

Elliptic curvesfinite fieldsprimitive root

MSC classification

Primary: 11G20: Curves over finite and local fields 14H52: Elliptic curves
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 496 - 505
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© Canadian Mathematical Society 2021

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