International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 37853, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/37853

Distribution of roots of polynomial congruences

Igor E. Shparlinski

Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, NSW, Australia

Abstract

For a prime p, we obtain an upper bound on the discrepancy of fractions r/p, where r runs through all of roots modulo p of all monic univariate polynomials of degree d whose vector of coefficients belongs to a d-dimensional box . The bound is nontrivial starting with boxes of size ||pd/2+ɛ for any fixed ɛ<0 and sufficiently large p.