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Note on Pairs of Consecutive Residues of Polynomials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kenneth S. Williams
Kenneth S. Williams*
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Carleton University
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Let f(x) be a polynomial of degree d ≥ 3 with integral coefficients, 'say,

In a previous paper [6] I deduced, from a deep result of Lang and Weil [2], that there is a constant k1(d), depending only on d, such that for all primes p ≥ k1(d), p ⫮ ad, f(x) has a pair of consecutive residues (mod p), that i s, there exists an integer r(0 ≤r ≤ p-1) with the property that

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , April 1968 , pp. 79 - 83
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

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