We also give examples of strong pseudoprimes to many bases which are not Sylow -pseudoprimes to two bases only, where or
In this paper, in contrast to Browkin's examples, we give facts and examples which are unfavorable for Browkin's observation to detect compositeness of odd composite numbers. In Section 2, we tabulate and compare counts of numbers in several sets of pseudoprimes and find that most strong pseudoprimes are also Sylow -pseudoprimes to the same bases. In Section 3, we give examples of Sylow -pseudoprimes to the first several prime bases for the first several primes . We especially give an example of a strong pseudoprime to the first six prime bases, which is a Sylow -pseudoprime to the same bases for all . In Section 4, we define to be a -fold Carmichael Sylow pseudoprime, if it is a Sylow -pseudoprime to all bases prime to for all the first smallest odd prime factors of . We find and tabulate all three -fold Carmichael Sylow pseudoprimes . In Section 5, we define a positive odd composite to be a Sylow uniform pseudoprime to bases , or a Syl-upsp for short, if it is a Syl-psp for all the first small prime factors of , where is the number of distinct prime factors of . We find and tabulate all the 17 Syl-upsp's and some Syl-upsp 's . Comparisons of effectiveness of Browkin's observation with Miller tests to detect compositeness of odd composite numbers are given in Section 6.
In this paper, we first follow the first author's previous work to use biquadratic residue characters and cubic residue characters as main tools to tabulate all strong pseudoprimes (spsp's) to the first five or six prime bases, which have the form with odd primes and ; then we tabulate all Carmichael numbers , to the first six prime bases up to 13, which have the form with each prime factor . There are in total 36 such Carmichael numbers, 12 numbers of which are also spsp's to base 17; 5 numbers are spsp's to bases 17 and 19; one number is an spsp to the first 11 prime bases up to 31. As a result the upper bounds for and are lowered from 20- and 22-decimal-digit numbers to a 19-decimal-digit number:
We conjecture that
and give reasons to support this conjecture. The main idea for finding these Carmichael numbers is that we loop on the largest prime factor and propose necessary conditions on to be a strong pseudoprime to the first prime bases. Comparisons of effectiveness with Arnault's, Bleichenbacher's, Jaeschke's, and Pinch's methods for finding (Carmichael) numbers with three prime factors, which are strong pseudoprimes to the first several prime bases, are given.
-strong pseudoprimesThen we call the kernel, the triple the signature, and the height of , respectively. We call a -number if it is a Carmichael number with each prime factor . If is a -number and a strong pseudoprime to the bases for , we call a -spsp . Since -numbers have probability of error (the upper bound of that for the Rabin-Miller test), they often serve as the exact values or upper bounds of (the smallest strong pseudoprime to all the first prime bases). If we know the exact value of , we will have, for integers , a deterministic efficient primality testing algorithm which is easy to implement.
In this paper, we first describe an algorithm for finding -spsp(2)'s, to a given limit, with heights bounded. There are in total -spsp's with heights . We then give an overview of the 21978 - spsp(2)'s and tabulate of them, which are -spsp's to the first prime bases up to ; three numbers are spsp's to the first 11 prime bases up to 31. No -spsp's to the first prime bases with heights were found. We conjecture that there exist no -spsp's to the first prime bases with heights and so that
which was found by the author in an earlier paper. We give reasons to support the conjecture. The main idea of our method for finding those -spsp's is that we loop on candidates of signatures and kernels with heights bounded, subject those candidates of -spsp's and their prime factors to Miller's tests, and obtain the desired numbers. At last we speed our algorithm for finding larger -spsp's, say up to , with a given signature to more prime bases. Comparisons of effectiveness with Arnault's and our previous methods for finding -strong pseudoprimes to the first several prime bases are given.
One aim of the reformulation is to enable the creation of stronger tests; another is to aid in proving results about large classes of pseudoprimes.
In this paper we tabulate all strong pseudoprimes (spsp's) to the first ten prime bases which have the form with odd primes and There are in total 44 such numbers, six of which are also spsp(31), and three numbers are spsp's to both bases 31 and 37. As a result the upper bounds for and are lowered from 28- and 29-decimal-digit numbers to 22-decimal-digit numbers, and a 24-decimal-digit upper bound for is obtained. The main tools used in our methods are the biquadratic residue characters and cubic residue characters. We propose necessary conditions for to be a strong pseudoprime to one or to several prime bases. Comparisons of effectiveness with both Jaeschke's and Arnault's methods are given.
We show that there is only one embedding of in at the prime , up to self-maps of . We also describe the effect of the group of self-equivalences of at the prime on this embedding and then show that the Friedlander exceptional isogeny composed with a suitable Adams map is an involution of whose homotopy fixed point set coincide with
Let the mod 2 Steenrod algebra, , and the general linear group, , act on with in the usual manner. We prove the conjecture of the first-named author in Spherical classes and the algebraic transfer, (Trans. Amer. Math Soc. 349 (1997), 3893-3910) stating that every element of positive degree in the Dickson algebra is -decomposable in for arbitrary 2$">. This conjecture was shown to be equivalent to a weak algebraic version of the classical conjecture on spherical classes, which states that the only spherical classes in are the elements of Hopf invariant one and those of Kervaire invariant one.