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We give the Agrawal–Biswas primality test, which has one-sided error. Small inputs and perfect powers can first be recognized deterministically. For every remaining integer $n$, put $d=\lceil 4{\log }_{2}n\rceil$ and choose a uniformly random monic polynomialUsing repeated squaring in the quotient ring $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})[X]/(r)$, test the identityThis takes time polynomial in $\log n$ because every intermediate polynomial has degree below $d=O(\log n)$.

If $n$ is prime, the intermediate binomial coefficients are divisible by $n$, so the identity always holds. Now suppose that $n$ is composite and is not a prime power. Choose a prime divisor $p$ and write $n=p^{a}m$ with $p\nmid m$ and $m>1$. Over ${\mathbb{F}}_p$,because an intermediate coefficient equal to $m$ is nonzero modulo $p$. Henceis a nonzero polynomial of degree below $n$ over ${\mathbb{F}}_p$.

Reduction of random $r$ modulo $p$ is uniform among the $p^d$ monic degree-$d$ polynomials. The polynomial $F$ has at most $n/d$ distinct monic irreducible factors of degree $d$. On the other hand, the number $I_p(d)$ of monic irreducibles of degree $d$ obeys the standard lower boundWhenever $r\mathrm{mod}p$ is one of these irreducibles but does not divide $F$, the tested congruence fails. Thus one trial detects compositeness with probability at leastafter the finitely many small $n$ are handled directly. Repeating $2d$ times makes the probability of missing a composite less than $(1-1/(2d){)}^{2d}<1/2$, while a prime is never rejected. Therefore compositeness is in RP, and primality testing is in

LetSuppose $F_n=x^k$ is a perfect power with $x\ge 2$. The finitely many small $n$ can be absorbed into the final effective constant. The Binet formula gives $x^k\asymp {\varphi }^n$ andThus, forthe local Lipschitz equivalence of $u$ and $e^u-1$ at zero yieldsThe form cannot vanish: applying the nontrivial field automorphism of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{5})$ to ${\varphi }^n=\sqrt{5}{x}^k$ would give ${\psi }^n=-\sqrt{5}{x}^k$, whose absolute values are incompatible.

Apply the Baker lower bound for a homogeneous linear form in logarithms with the variable-height number $x$ placed last. The parameters belonging to $\varphi$ and $\sqrt{5}$ are absolute constants, while $\log A_x\asymp \log x$. Moreover,so $n/\log A_x\ll k$ and therefore $B^{\ast }\ll k$. The refined lower bound becomesComparison with the exponential upper bound gives $k\le C_3\log k$. Since $k/\log k$ tends to infinity, this bounds $k$ by an effective absolute constant. Enlarging it to cover the discarded small indices proves the claim.