On Zsigmondy primes
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Abstract:
We present simple proofs of Walter Feit’s results on large Zsigmondy primes.References
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Additional Information
- Moshe Roitman
- Email: mroitman@mathcs2.haifa.ac.il
- Received by editor(s): December 19, 1995
- Additional Notes: I thank Yakov Berkovich for suggesting this subject and for useful discussions concerning it.
- Communicated by: Ronald M. Solomon
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 1913-1919
- MSC (1991): Primary 11A41
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03981-6
- MathSciNet review: 1402885