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Tim Trudgian, Australian National University
Tuesday - June 28, 2016
C630, 12:00 to 12:50 pm
Very little is known about the distribution of primitive roots of a prime p. Grosswald conjectured that the least primitive root of a prime p is less than the square root of p, minus 2, for all p greater than 409. While this is certainly true for all p sufficiently large, Grosswald's conjecture in still open. I shall outline some recent work which resolves the conjecture completely under the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis and which almost resolves the conjecture unconditionally.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
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[sponsored by PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences]
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Barb Hodgson | hodgsonb@uleth.ca | (403) 329-2470 | uleth.ca/artsci/math-computer-science