Recursive Elucidation of Polynomial Congruences Using Root-Finding Numerical Techniques

Abstract

In this paper we put forward a family of algorithms for lifting solutions of a polynomial congruencemod pto polynomial congruencemod pk. For this purpose, root-finding iterative methods are employed for solving polynomial congruences of the formaxn≡b(mod pk),k≥1,wherea,b,andn>0are integers which are not divisible by an odd primep. It is shown that the algorithms suggested in this paper drastically reduce the complexity for such computations to a logarithmic scale. The efficacy of the proposed technique for solving negative exponent equations of the formax-n≡b(mod pk)has also been addressed.