Two efficient algorithms for the computation of ideal sums in quadratic orders

This paper deals with two different asymptotically fast algorithms for the computation of ideal sums in quadratic orders. If the class number of the quadratic number field is equal to 1, these algorithms can be used to calculate the GCD in the quadratic order. We show that the calculation of an ideal sum in a fixed quadratic order can be done as fast as in up to a constant factor, i.e., in where bounds the size of the operands and denotes an upper bound for the multiplication time of -bit integers. Using Schönhage-Strassen's asymptotically fast multiplication for -bit integers, we achieve

     

Even moments of generalized Rudin-Shapiro polynomials

We know from Littlewood (1968) that the moments of order of the classical Rudin-Shapiro polynomials satisfy a linear recurrence of degree . In a previous article, we developed a new approach, which enables us to compute exactly all the moments of even order for . We were also able to check a conjecture on the asymptotic behavior of , namely , where , for even and . Now for every integer there exists a sequence of generalized Rudin-Shapiro polynomials, denoted by . In this paper, we extend our earlier method to these polynomials. In particular, the moments have been completely determined for and , for and and for and . For higher values of and , we formulate a natural conjecture, which implies that , where is an explicit constant.

     

Computing automorphisms of abelian number fields

Let be an abelian number field of degree . Most algorithms for computing the lattice of subfields of require the computation of all the conjugates of . This is usually achieved by factoring the minimal polynomial of over . In practice, the existing algorithms for factoring polynomials over algebraic number fields can handle only problems of moderate size. In this paper we describe a fast probabilistic algorithm for computing the conjugates of , which is based on -adic techniques. Given and a rational prime which does not divide the discriminant of , the algorithm computes the Frobenius automorphism of in time polynomial in the size of and in the size of . By repeatedly applying the algorithm to randomly chosen primes it is possible to compute all the conjugates of .

     

An estimate for the number of integers without large prime factors

denotes the number of positive integers and free of prime factors y$">. Hildebrand and Tenenbaum provided a good approximation of . However, their method requires the solution to the equation , and therefore it needs a large amount of time for the numerical solution of the above equation for large . Hildebrand also showed approximates for , where and is the unique solution to . Let be defined by for 0$">. We show approximates , and also approximates , where . Using these approximations, we give a simple method which approximates within a factor in the range , where is any positive constant.

     

CM-fields with relative class number one

We will show that the normal CM-fields with relative class number one are of degrees . Moreover, if we assume the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, then the normal CM-fields with relative class number one are of degrees , and the CM-fields with class number one are of degrees . By many authors all normal CM-fields of degrees with class number one are known except for the possible fields of degree or . Consequently the class number one problem for normal CM-fields is solved under the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis except for these two cases.

     

Short effective intervals containing primes in arithmetic progressions and the seven cubes problem

For any and any non-exceptional modulus , we prove that, for large enough ( ), the interval contains a prime in any of the arithmetic progressions modulo . We apply this result to establish that every integer larger than is a sum of seven cubes.

     

Involutions and characters of upper triangular matrix groups

We study the realizability over of representations of the group of upper-triangular matrices over . We prove that all the representations of are realizable over if , but that if , has representations not realizable over . This theorem is a variation on a result that can be obtained by combining work of J. Arregi and A. Vera-López and of the authors, but the proof of the theorem in this paper is much more natural.

     

A hidden number problem in small subgroups

Boneh and Venkatesan have proposed a polynomial time algorithm for recovering a hidden element , where is prime, from rather short strings of the most significant bits of the residue of modulo for several randomly chosen . González Vasco and the first author have recently extended this result to subgroups of of order at least for all and to subgroups of order at least for almost all . Here we introduce a new modification in the scheme which amplifies the uniformity of distribution of the multipliers and thus extend this result to subgroups of order at least for all primes . As in the above works, we give applications of our result to the bit security of the Diffie-Hellman secret key starting with subgroups of very small size, thus including all cryptographically interesting subgroups.

     

Comparison theorems of Kolmogorov type and exact values of -widths on Hardy-Sobolev classes

Let be a strip in complex plane. denotes those -periodic, real-valued functions on which are analytic in the strip and satisfy the condition , . Osipenko and Wilderotter obtained the exact values of the Kolmogorov, linear, Gel'fand, and information -widths of in , , and 2-widths of in , , .

In this paper we continue their work. Firstly, we establish a comparison theorem of Kolmogorov type on , from which we get an inequality of Landau-Kolmogorov type. Secondly, we apply these results to determine the exact values of the Gel'fand -width of in , . Finally, we calculate the exact values of Kolmogorov -width, linear -width, and information -width of in , , .

     

Computation of relative class numbers of CM-fields by using Hecke -functions

We develop an efficient technique for computing values at of Hecke -functions. We apply this technique to the computation of relative class numbers of non-abelian CM-fields which are abelian extensions of some totally real subfield . We note that the smaller the degree of the more efficient our technique is. In particular, our technique is very efficient whenever instead of simply choosing (the maximal totally real subfield of ) we can choose real quadratic. We finally give examples of computations of relative class numbers of several dihedral CM-fields of large degrees and of several quaternion octic CM-fields with large discriminants.

     

Complexity of inverting the Euler function

Given an integer , how hard is it to find the set of all integers such that , where is the Euler totient function? We present a certain basic algorithm which, given the prime number factorization of , in polynomial time ``on average' (that is, ), finds the set of all such solutions . In fact, in the worst case this set of solutions is exponential in , and so cannot be constructed by a polynomial time algorithm. In the opposite direction, we show, under a widely accepted number theoretic conjecture, that the PARTITION PROBLEM, an NP-complete problem, can be reduced in polynomial (in the input size) time to the problem of deciding whether has a solution, for polynomially (in the input size of the PARTITION PROBLEM) many values of (where the prime factorizations of these are given). What this means is that the problem of deciding whether there even exists a solution to , let alone finding any or all such solutions, is very likely to be intractable. Finally, we establish close links between the problem of inverting the Euler function and the integer factorization problem.

     

Smooth macro-elements on Powell-Sabin-12 splits

Macro-elements of smoothness are constructed on Powell- Sabin- splits of a triangle for all . These new elements complement those recently constructed on Powell-Sabin- splits and can be used to construct convenient superspline spaces with stable local bases and full approximation power that can be applied to the solution of boundary-value problems and for interpolation of Hermite data.

     

Chebyshev's bias for composite numbers with restricted prime divisors

Let denote the number of primes with . Chebyshev's bias is the phenomenon for which ``more often' \pi(x;d,r)$">, than the other way around, where is a quadratic nonresidue mod and is a quadratic residue mod . If for every up to some large number, then one expects that for every . Here denotes the number of integers such that every prime divisor of satisfies . In this paper we develop some tools to deal with this type of problem and apply them to show that, for example, for every .

In the process we express the so-called second order Landau-Ramanujan constant as an infinite series and show that the same type of formula holds for a much larger class of constants.

     

On irregular prime power divisors of the Bernoulli numbers

Let ( ) denote the usual th Bernoulli number. Let be a positive even integer where or . It is well known that the numerator of the reduced quotient is a product of powers of irregular primes. Let be an irregular pair with . We show that for every the congruence has a unique solution where and . The sequence defines a -adic integer which is a zero of a certain -adic zeta function originally defined by T. Kubota and H. W. Leopoldt. We show some properties of these functions and give some applications. Subsequently we give several computations of the (truncated) -adic expansion of for irregular pairs with below 1000.

     

Linear law for the logarithms of the Riemann periods at simple critical zeta zeros

Each simple zero of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line with is a center for the flow of the Riemann xi function with an associated period . It is shown that, as ,

Numerical evaluation leads to the conjecture that this inequality can be replaced by an equality. Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis and a zeta zero separation conjecture for some exponent , we obtain the upper bound . Assuming a weakened form of a conjecture of Gonek, giving a bound for the reciprocal of the derivative of zeta at each zero, we obtain the expected upper bound for the periods so, conditionally, . Indeed, this linear relationship is equivalent to the given weakened conjecture, which implies the zero separation conjecture, provided the exponent is sufficiently large. The frequencies corresponding to the periods relate to natural eigenvalues for the Hilbert-Polya conjecture. They may provide a goal for those seeking a self-adjoint operator related to the Riemann hypothesis.

     

A search for Fibonacci-Wieferich and Wolstenholme primes

A prime is called a Fibonacci-Wieferich prime if , where is the th Fibonacci number. We report that there exist no such primes . A prime is called a Wolstenholme prime if . To date the only known Wolstenholme primes are 16843 and 2124679. We report that there exist no new Wolstenholme primes . Wolstenholme, in 1862, proved that for all primes . It is estimated by a heuristic argument that the ``probability' that is Fibonacci-Wieferich (independently: that is Wolstenholme) is about . We provide some statistical data relevant to occurrences of small values of the Fibonacci-Wieferich quotient modulo .

     

Minimality and other properties of the width- nonadjacent form

Let be an integer and let be the set of integers that includes zero and the odd integers with absolute value less than . Every integer can be represented as a finite sum of the form , with , such that of any consecutive 's at most one is nonzero. Such representations are called width- nonadjacent forms (-NAFs). When these representations use the digits and coincide with the well-known nonadjacent forms. Width- nonadjacent forms are useful in efficiently implementing elliptic curve arithmetic for cryptographic applications. We provide some new results on the -NAF. We show that -NAFs have a minimal number of nonzero digits and we also give a new characterization of the -NAF in terms of a (right-to-left) lexicographical ordering. We also generalize a result on -NAFs and show that any base 2 representation of an integer, with digits in , that has a minimal number of nonzero digits is at most one digit longer than its binary representation.

     

Families of irreducible polynomials of Gaussian periods and matrices of cyclotomic numbers

Given an odd prime we show a way to construct large families of polynomials , , where is a set of primes of the form mod and is the irreducible polynomial of the Gaussian periods of degree in . Examples of these families when are worked in detail. We also show, given an integer and a prime mod , how to represent by matrices the Gaussian periods of degree in , and how to calculate in a simple way, with the help of a computer, irreducible polynomials for elements of .

     

Sharpening ``Primes is in P' for a large family of numbers

We present algorithms that are deterministic primality tests for a large family of integers, namely, integers for which an integer is given such that the Jacobi symbol , and integers for which an integer is given such that . The algorithms we present run in time, where is the exact power of dividing when and if . The complexity of our algorithms improves up to when . We also give tests for a more general family of numbers and study their complexity.

     

The convergence of harmonic Ritz values, harmonic Ritz vectors, and refined harmonic Ritz vectors

This paper concerns a harmonic projection method for computing an approximation to an eigenpair of a large matrix . Given a target point and a subspace that contains an approximation to , the harmonic projection method returns an approximation to . Three convergence results are established as the deviation of from approaches zero. First, the harmonic Ritz value converges to if a certain Rayleigh quotient matrix is uniformly nonsingular. Second, the harmonic Ritz vector converges to if the Rayleigh quotient matrix is uniformly nonsingular and remains well separated from the other harmonic Ritz values. Third, better error bounds for the convergence of are derived when converges. However, we show that the harmonic projection method can fail to find the desired eigenvalue --in other words, the method can miss if it is very close to . To this end, we propose to compute the Rayleigh quotient of with respect to and take it as a new approximate eigenvalue. is shown to converge to once tends to , no matter how is close to . Finally, we show that if the Rayleigh quotient matrix is uniformly nonsingular, then the refined harmonic Ritz vector, or more generally the refined eigenvector approximation introduced by the author, converges. We construct examples to illustrate our theory.