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Cubic polynomials with the same residues (mod p)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

K. McCann
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
K. S. Williams
Affiliation:
University of Manchester

Extract

Some recent work by the authors (1) on the distribution of the residues of a cubic polynomial modulo an odd prime p led to the conjecture that, in general, two cubic polynomials with integer coefficients possessing the same residues modulo p (not necessarily occurring to the same multiplicity) are equivalent, that is are related by a linear transformation modulo p. The purpose of the present paper is to prove this conjecture. We establish the following theorem.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1968

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REFERENCES

(1)McCann, K. and Williams, K. S.On the residues of a cubic polynomial (mod p) Canad. Math. Bull., 10 (1967), 2938.Google Scholar
(2)Perel'muter, G. I.On certain sums of characters, Uspehi Mat. Nauk., (2), 18 (1963), 145–9.Google Scholar