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The Lagrange root bound over a field says that a nonzero polynomial of degree over a field has at most roots. In particular, a polynomial modular congruence of degree modulo a prime number has at most incongruent solutions unless all its coefficients vanish modulo that prime.
Suppose that is good and that the positive integer divisor divides . The roots of form a finite multiplicative subgroup of . By the fact that every finite multiplicative subgroup of a field is cyclic, is a cyclic group of order . The solutions in of areso there are at least of them. The Lagrange root bound over a field gives at most roots in all of , hence exactly . Thus every divisor of a good number is good.
Now put . By the Chinese remainder theorem for unit groups, a base is a Fermat-pseudoprime base precisely when its two components satisfyThe power roots in a finite field andshow that each component has ten choices. Therefore there areFermat-pseudoprime bases.
To impose the strong pseudoprime condition, write with odd. Since , we have . In each cyclic group of ten Fermat components, raising to the th power sends five elements to and five elements to . A pair of components passes the strong test exactly when their signs agree: the pair satisfies the first alternative, and satisfies the second at . Components of opposite sign become after squaring and can never jointly equal . Hence the number of strong-pseudoprime bases is
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Write a matrix as , where is a nonzero quadratic residue modulo . The square subgroup isMatrix multiplication becomesThus is the affine semidirect product of cyclic groups of orders eleven and fiveThere are five choices for and eleven for , so . It is nonabelian, since
LetConjugation by the complement givesHence the ten nonidentity translations split into the two orbitseach of size five. For ,Since , varying gives every . Conjugation cannot change in the abelian quotient . Therefore, withthe seven conjugacy classes areof sizes , agreeing with the conjugacy classes in the affine semidirect product of orders eleven and five.
The commutators with generate every translation because multiplication by is invertible in . Hence the commutator subgroup is , and the abelianization isPut . The one-dimensional characters factor through the abelianization, giving five characters
For the remaining characters, put and define a character of byThe complement has two free orbits on the nontrivial , indexed by and . By induction from an abelian normal subgroup with a free character orbit, the charactersare irreducible of degree five and vanish outside .
SetThe quadratic periods modulo eleven give the nonsquare sum . Multiplication by a square preserves and multiplication by a nonsquare exchanges the two square classes, so the complete character table isFinally,and there are seven rows for the seven conjugacy classes. Thus these are all irreducible characters, as described by the irreducible characters of the affine semidirect product of orders eleven and five.
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