Questions tagged [computational-number-theory]
Computational Number Theory is for explicit calculations or algorithms involving anything of interest to number theorists.
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Counting modular squares in an interval
For an integer $m$, let $S^m_{x_0,x_1} = \{ t | x_0 ≤ t ≤ x_1 $ and $t$ is a square modulo $m \}$. Let $S^m_x$ = $S^m_{0,x}$.
Determining whether the sets $S^m_x$ are empty is easy (1 is always a ...
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Integer partition and sum of squares
Hello,
The question below might be well known, and using different words (I made these up, I'm not a number theorist or specialist in combinatorics)
For all integers $n\geq 2$ denote by $\mathcal{P}...
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Most orthogonal lattice basis
Let $n \in \mathbf{N}$ be a natural number and $v_1,\cdots,v_n$ a set of basis vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$. How does one find the matrix $g \in \mathbf{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$ orthogonalizing these best ...
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Efficiency in deriving differences of divisor pairs
I have a computational problem where I need to derive the differences in divisor pairs in as few cpu cycles as possible.
In particular I am interested in divisors of numbers of the form $x^3+3*x^2*y+...
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12 descent scripts for pari/gp
I'm looking around for scripts to facilitate 12 descent on Mordell curves, preferably in Pari/gp.
I understand that Magma implements this feature, but unfortunately this software isn't available to ...
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Efficient computation of integer representation as a sum of three squares
Recently I've been studying the problem of integer representation as sum of three squares. Most of the articles that I've found study the function $r_m(n)$ which counts the number of representations ...
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Does this notion of pseudoprime relative to a matrix appear in the literature?
Let $M$ be a square matrix with integer entries. Then Fermat's little theorem for matrices holds:
$$\text{tr}(M^p) \equiv \text{tr}(M) \bmod p.$$
This follows by an examination of the action of the ...
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Saying things rapidly about integer factorisations
Let $N$ be a positive integer. Thanks to the Miller-Rabin test and the work of Agrawal, Kayal and Saxena, these days people have much much faster algorithms for testing whether $N$ is prime or ...
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Recent Fast Multiplication Algorithms for Large Integers
The STOC 2008 paper "Fast Integer Multiplication using Modular Arithmetic" by De et al
http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1416 shows how to use $p$-adic numbers instead of $\mathbb C$ used in Furer's ...
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Is there a security analysis of the GQ digital signature scheme?
I'm doing summer cryptography research and I am have been looking for a security analysis of the Guillou-Quisquater (GQ) digital signature scheme, but I have been unable to find one.
Since this is not ...
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Computational number theory
I am interested in learning computational number theory and doing some computer experiments.
Which sort of number theory problems can be solved by using computers? For example, is it possible to ...
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Fibonacci Numbers Modulo m [closed]
In the paper "Fibonacci Series Modulo m" by D.D. Wall (found here), there is a table in the Appendix listing values for the function $k(p)$. This function is defined as the period of the Fibonacci ...
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What is the largest computed summatory liouville interval ?
I am interested to know the largest computed summatory liouville interval, an implementation of which is detailed in Section 4.1 of [1].
The wikipedia page [2] for the function charts summatory ...
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Efficient counting of Egyptian fractions with bounded denominators
I was amazed to discover that sequence http://oeis.org/A020473 in the OEIS has almost four hundred terms computed.
I wonder how one can get that far? E.g., how one can compute A020473(100)?
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Mertens' function in time $O(\sqrt x)$
This MathOverflow question seems to indicate that the state of the art in computing
$$
M(x)=\sum_{n\le x}\mu(n)
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takes time $\Theta(n^{2/3}(\log\log n)^{1/3}),$ which matches my understanding. ...
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Sum of $\sum_{k=1}^nd(k^2)$
There is a literature dealing with
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\sum_{k\le x}d(f(k))
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where $f$ is an irreducible polynomial and $d(n)$ is the number of divisors of $n$. Erdos 1952 shows that the sum $\asymp x\log x,$ which ...
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Interesting result on the Euler-Maschroni constant - what is the background?
Today I entered the following expression in maple:
$$a_i = H_{10^i} - ln(10^i) - \gamma$$
Here $H_j$ equals $\sum_{k=1}^{j} 1/k$ and $\gamma$ is the Euler-Mascheroni constant.
When I computed $a_n$ ...
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Computing the fixed field of an automorphism of a function field
Let say we have a function field $k(x,y)$ defined by $f(x,y)$ over $k$, with $\sigma \in Aut(k(x,y)/k)$ and. Suppose, I'm not that out of luck, so that either of $\prod \sigma^i(x)$ or $\sum \sigma^i(...
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Rational integer solutions of a linear Diophantine equation of cyclotomic integers
I am working with lattices in $\mathbb{C}$, and I want to know whether a certain vector is an element of the lattice.
In particular, suppose my lattice vectors are $a$ and $b$ and I want to know ...
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Complexity of Membership-Testing for finite abelian groups
Consider the following abelian-subgroup membership-testing problem.
Inputs:
A finite abelian group $G=\mathbb{Z}_{d_1}\times\mathbb{Z}_{d_1}\ldots\times\mathbb{Z}_{d_m}$ with arbitrary-...
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How to calculate [10^10^10^10^10^-10^10]?
How to find an integer part of $10^{10^{10^{10^{10^{-10^{10}}}}}}$? It looks like it is slightly above $10^{10^{10}}$.
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Witt rings and prime number generator?
Let $p$ be a fixed prime number. We define the ring of Witt vectors $W(R)$ for any commutative ring $R$ as follows:
For every ring morphism $R \rightarrow R'$ the induced morphism $W(R) \rightarrow ...
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Hermit H-machines
I call an H-machine a machine that can be connected to turing machines and that takes as input a natural integer n and instantly returns the n'th digit of the mathematical constant H.
Is there a ...
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Which rational subfields are corresponding to the two dimensional subspaces of holomorphic differentials
I implemented the algorithm that Felipe Voloch's suggested in his reply to the question:
Subfields of a function field
the algorithm is here:
Subfields of a function field
I considered the ...
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Effective detection of CM modular forms
Say $f$ is a newform of weight $k$ and level $\Gamma_1(N)$. $f$ is called CM if, for example, there is an imaginary quadratic field $K$ such that for all $p\nmid N$ which are inert in $K$, the $p$th ...
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Algorithm/denominators of elements of a rational affine space
I hope it's not a trivial question... Suppose I have a finite dimensional vector space $V$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ with a distinguished basis (in my case it's the $k$th graded piece of the free associative ...
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Range of the least witness function
Let W(n) be a function from the positive odd composite numbers to the least positive b such that n is not a b-strong pseudoprime. W(n) exists for all numbers in its domain and its range is unbounded. ...
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Lower bound for p-adic distance between roots
Let $f$ be a formal power series with coefficients in the ring of integers of a finite extension of ${\mathbb Q}_p$. Is there a simple algorithm to compute a positive lower bound for $|\alpha - \beta|...
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Why do subspaces of the space of Global holomorphic differentials of a function field correspond to its subfields
I'm asking this question as a follow up to the Felipe Voloch's answer to this question:
Subfields of a function field
which you can read it here:
Subfields of a function field
(I just didn't have ...
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Number of biquadrates mod n
Is there an explicit formula for the number of fourth powers mod n?
Finch & Sebah [1] give theorems, partially folklore, for squares and cubes mod n, but I don't know of a similar formula for ...
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Finding colinear points in F_q^n
Forgive me if this is well known, it's not really my field, but it's a problem I've run across and thought about a bit.
Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field with $q$ elements, let $n\ge2$, and let $A,...
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Reducing factoring prime products to factoring integer products (in average-case)
My question is about the equivalence of the security of various candidate one-way functions that can be constructed based on the hardness of factoring. (This question has been asked also in the CS ...
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Transition Graph per alphabet? [closed]
How do you determine how many different Transition Graphs are over a particular alphabet? For example How many TG's are over the alphabet {x, y}. I am taking a class with a similar question from ...
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How many cpus needed to check a 100 million digit prime number efficiently? [closed]
If I had access to potentially unlimited CPUs and wanted to quickly check 100 million digit numbers for primality using a map-reduce architecture, how many CPUs would be necessary? Each of the mapped ...
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Computing the function field of a curve given as a subvariety of the Jacobian of its cover or merely the degree of the covering
I read following paragraph from:
G. Tamme, Teilkörper höheren Geschlechts eines algebraischen Funktionenkörpers, Arch. Math. 23 (1972), 257--259
Here $C$ is a curve of genus $\ge 2$ and $J$ is the ...
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How to ask Magma to compute the induced morphisim on divisor group
Suppose Magma has computed homomorphism $h$ between function fields $F1 \to F2$. Then we have an induced homomorphism $h$ on the divisor group. Now my question is that if there's a better way to ...
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Optimize / simple Set Covering Problem
Let $k,m\in\mathbb{N}$ be given. Let $M:=\{0,... , m-1\}$. How to find a subset $T\subset M$, $|T|=k$ such that $|T+T|$ is maximal, where $T+T=\{ (a+b)\mathbin\%m \mid a\in T,b\in T \}$ (“%” means ...
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Points of bounded height in a number field
Let $K$ be a number field of absolute degree $d$, let $B$ be a positive real number, and write $S(K, B) = \{x \in K : H(x) \leq B\}$. Here $H$ is the absolute multiplicative height of an algebraic ...
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Effective bounds on Euler's totient
Quick question: It's known that
$$\limsup\frac{n}{\varphi(n)\log\log n}=e^\gamma$$
but are there known C and N such that
$$\varphi(n)>\frac{Cn}{e^\gamma\log\log n}$$
for all $n>N$?
Failing that,...
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Efficient computation of the least fraction with square denominator greater than the square root of 2.
The least rational number greater than $\sqrt{2}$ that can be written as a ratio of integers $x/y$ with $y\le10^{100}$ can be found in a moment using a little Python program. Can anyone write a ...
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Computation for composition of polynomials
Let $R$ be a ring, $f(X)$ be a polynomial with coefficients in $R$ of degree $n$. It's known that for any $\alpha \in R$, one can evaluate $f$ at $\alpha$, i.e compute $f( \alpha) $ in $O(n)$ ...
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Computing (on a computer) the first few (non-trivial) zeros of the zeta function of a number field.
Let $M$ be the splitting field of
x^8 + 3*x^7 + 13*x^6 + 17*x^5 + 45*x^4 + 37*x^3 + 11*x^2 + 112*x + 108
over the rationals. If I've understood some tables ...
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Computing index of a subgroup of SL_2 in sage
Suppose I have a subgroup of $\textrm{SL}_2(\mathbb Z)$ given by 3 generators, and it happens to be of finite index in $\textrm{SL}_2$. Is there a way (on Sage, since that is what I have access to) ...
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What is the longest known sequence of consecutive zeros in Pi? [closed]
Inspired by this question, I would like to know what is the longest known sequence of consecutive zeros in Pi (in base 10).
So far the longest I have found is the sequence of 8 zero's occurring in ...
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Necessary/Sufficient condition/Algorithm that tells me a function field is a kummer extension
I start my question with an example. Suppose $F/K$ be the function field generated by $x^n - yx^{n-1} - 1 = 0$. It is not a cyclic over K(y), but if I set $t = yx^{n-1}$ then we have $K(x,t) \subset K(...
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Calculating the constant in the Bateman-Horn-Stemmler conjecture
Bateman & Horn [1], building on Bateman & Stemmler [2], give a conjectured formula for the density of numbers that produce simultaneous primes in a number of fixed polynomials.
The constant ...
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Most efficient checking algorithm for Pell's Equation
What is the most computationally efficient way to check, given $x,y,D$ that they satisfy Pell's equation (positive or negative) ($x^2-Dy^2=1$)? (Obviously the question is concerned with very large ...
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Best way to find a closest vector in a lattice
Let $v_1,\dotsc,v_n$ be linearly independent vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and let $\Lambda=\bigoplus_{i=1}^n \mathbb{Z}v_i$. The question is, given a vector $w$ in $\mathbb R^n$, find the element $v$ ...
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Walsh Fourier transform of the Möbius function
This question is related to this previous question where I asked about ordinary Fourier coefficients.
Special case: is Möbius nearly orthogonal to Morse
August Ferdinand Möbius (November 17, 1790 – ...
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How many LLL reduced bases are there?
For a given $n$-dimensional lattice embedded inside $\mathbb R^n$ along with a given inner product, how many distinct LLL-reduced bases are there?
In this question, a lattice is the set of all $\...
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