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Michael Hardy
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Questions in number theory related to $NC$ and $P$-completeness

  1. Given $a,b\in\mathbb N$ find $\operatorname{GCD}(a,b)$.

  2. Given $a,b,c\in\mathbb N$ find $x,y\in\mathbb Z$ such that $ax+by=c$.

Euclidean algorithm solves both.

My question is if either 1 or 2 is in functional $NC$ does it follow the other is in functional $NC$?

Is there a variant of $1$ or $2$ which is $P$-complete? Ideally I would like the involved Diophantine equations to be of constant number of variables and constant degree.

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