Arithmetic progressions of primitive roots of a prime. III.
In this paper we establish the distribution of prime numbers in a given arithmetic progression for which is squarefree.
Fix an integer . Rikuna introduced a polynomial defined over a function field whose Galois group is cyclic of order , where satisfies some mild hypotheses. In this paper we define the family of generalized Rikuna polynomials of degree . The are constructed iteratively from the . We compute the Galois groups of the for odd over an arbitrary base field and give applications to arithmetic dynamical systems.
In this paper, we look at various arithmetic properties of the set of those positive integers n whose sum of digits in a fixed base b > 1 is a fixed positive integer s. For example, we prove that such integers can have many prime factors, that they are not very smooth, and that most such integers have a large prime factor dividing the value of their Euler φ function.