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New solvability conditions for congruence ax≡b (mod n) Cover

New solvability conditions for congruence ax≡b (mod n)

Open Access
|Feb 2016

Abstract

K. Bibak et al. [arXiv:1503.01806v1 [math.NT],March 5 2015] proved that congruence ax ≡ b (mod n) has a solution x0 with t = gcd(x0, n) if and only if gcd thereby generalizing the result for t = 1 proved by B. Alomair et al. [J. Math. Cryptol. 4 (2010), 121-148] and O. Grošek et al. [ibid. 7 (2013), 217-224]. We show that this generalized result for arbitrary t follows from that for t = 1 proved in the later papers. Then we shall analyze this result from the point of view of a weaker condition that gcd . We prove that given integers a, b, n ≥ 1 and t ≥ 1, congruence ax ≡ b (mod n) has a solution x0 with t dividing gcd(x0, n) if and only if gcd divides gcd .

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/tmmp-2015-0044 | Journal eISSN: 1338-9750 | Journal ISSN: 12103195
Language: English
Page range: 93 - 99
Submitted on: Nov 22, 2015
Published on: Feb 19, 2016
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

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