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Tabulating pseudoprimes and tabulating liars

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Abstract

This article explores the asymptotic complexity of two problems related to the Miller-Rabin-Selfridge primality test. The first problem is to tabulate strong pseudoprimes to a single fixed base a. It is now proven that tabulating up to x requires O(x) arithmetic operations and O(x log x) bits of space. The second problem is to find all strong liars and witnesses, given a fixed odd composite n. This appears to be unstudied, and a randomized algorithm is presented that requires an expected O((log n)2 + /S(n)/) operations (here S(n) is the set of strong liars). Although interesting in their own right, a notable application is the search for sets of composites with no reliable witnesses.

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Original language

English

Article number

a4

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

ACM Transactions on Algorithms (Volume 13, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 09/2016

Publication status

Published - 09/2016

ISSN

1549-6325

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 84989177848