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The three suggested values areThere is an obstruction at $p=3$: every integer residue satisfies $x^3-x\equiv 0(\mathrm{mod}3)$, whereas $-1\equiv 2$ is not a square modulo three. Reduction of a solution in the p-adic integers would give an impossible solution modulo three.

At $p=2$, take $x=-2$. The odd 2-adic unit in a ring $-7$ is congruent to one modulo eight, so it is a square in ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$. We use the standard 2-adic square criterion that an odd unit in a ring is a square exactly when it is one modulo eight. Its sufficiency follows by successively adjusting an odd square root modulo $2^m$ by $2^{m-1}$ to obtain the next required square congruence. Thus $y^2=-7$ has a 2-adic integer solution.

For $p\ge 5$ other than $23$, the discriminant of $y^2=x^3-x-1$ isso this model has good reduction of an elliptic curve. Hasse's theorem on elliptic curves givesSince there is just one point at infinity, there is an affine point. Smoothness means that at least one partial derivative of $y^2-x^3+x+1$ is a unit in a ring modulo $p$, so Hensel's lemma lifts the affine point to ${\mathbb{Z}}_p^2$. The last exceptional odd prime is also soluble: at $p=23$, $h(-2)=-7\equiv 16$ has square roots $\pm 4$, which are simple roots of $Y^2+7$ modulo $23$, and lift by Hensel's lemma.

For small-prime checks the suggested values also give $x=0$ at $p=5$ and $x=3$ at $p=7$, where respectively $-1\equiv 2^2$ and $23\equiv 3^2$. ThereforeThe same prime list holds if one only asks for a solution modulo $p$, but the lifting above establishes the asserted p-adic integer solutions. This is local solubility of the cubic x cubed minus x minus one.