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Pairs of Consecutive Residues of Polynomials
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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Let p be a large prime and let ƒ(x) be a polynomial of fixed degree d ⩾ 4 with integral coefficients, say,
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Recently Mordell (8) has considered the problem of estimating the least positive residue of ƒ(x) (mod p), that is, the unique integer l (0 ⩽ l ⩽ p — 1) such that the congruence
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is soluble for r = l but not for r = 0, 1, … , l — 1.
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