Abstract
We consider an analog, when is replaced by , of Wilson primes, namely the primes satisfying Wilson’s congruence to modulus rather than the usual prime modulus . We fully characterize these primes by connecting these or higher power congruences to other fundamental quantities such as higher derivatives and higher difference quotients as well as higher Fermat quotients. For example, in characteristic , we show that a prime of is a Wilson prime if and only if its second derivative with respect to is and in this case, further, that the congruence holds automatically modulo . For , the power is replaced by . For every , we show that there are infinitely many such primes.
Citation
Dinesh Thakur. "Differential characterization of Wilson primes for $\mathbb{F}_q[t]$." Algebra Number Theory 7 (8) 1841 - 1848, 2013. https://doi.org/10.2140/ant.2013.7.1841
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