Finding C3-strong pseudoprimes
Finding C3-strong pseudoprimes
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10.1090/s0025-5718-04-01693-x
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2005
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Zhenxiang Zhang
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Zhenxiang Zhang
Let q1 < q2 < q3 be odd primes and N = q1q2q3. Put d = gcd(q1 − 1, q2 − 1, q3 − 1) and hi = qi−1 d , i = 1, 2, 3. Then we call d the kernel, the triple (h1, h2, h3) the signature, and H = h1h2h3 the height of N , respectively. We call N a C3-number if it is a Carmichael number with each prime factor qi ≡ 3 mod 4. If N is a C3-number and a strong pseudoprime to the t bases bi for 1 ≤ i ≤ t, we call N a C3-spsp(b1, b2, . . . , bt). Since C3-numbers have probability of error 1/4 (the upper bound of that for the Rabin-Miller test), they often serve as the exact values or upper bounds of ψm (the smallest strong pseudoprime to all the first m prime bases). If we know the exact value of ψm, we will have, for integers n < ψm, a deterministic efficient primality testing algorithm which is easy to implement. In this paper, we first describe an algorithm for finding C3-spsp(2)’s, to a given limit, with heights bounded. There are in total 21978 C3-spsp(2)’s < 1024 with heights < 109. We then give an overview of the 21978 C3spsp(2)’s and tabulate 54 of them, which are C3-spsp’s to the first 8 prime bases up to 19; three numbers are spsp’s to the first 11 prime bases up to 31. No C3-spsp’s < 1024 to the first 12 prime bases with heights < 109 were found. We conjecture that there exist no C3-spsp’s < 1024 to the first 12 prime bases with heights ≥ 109 and so that ψ12 = 3186 65857 83403 11511 67461 (24 digits) = 399165290221 · 798330580441, 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 21978 C3spsp(2)’s is that we loop on candidates of signatures and kernels with heights bounded, subject those candidates N = q1q2q3 of C3-spsp(2)’s and their prime factors q1, q2, q3 to Miller’s tests, and obtain the desired numbers. At last we speed our algorithm for finding larger C3-spsp’s, say up to 1050, with a given signature to more prime bases. Comparisons of effectiveness with Arnault’s and our previous methods for finding C3-strong pseudoprimes to the first several prime bases are given.