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 ℬ. The bound is nontrivial starting with boxes ℬ of size |ℬ|≥pd/2+ɛ for any fixed ɛ<0 and sufficiently large p.