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The AKS primality test (also known as Agrawal–Kayal–Saxena primality test and cyclotomic AKS test) is a deterministic primality-proving algorithm created and published by Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena, computer scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, on August 6, 2002, in an article titled "PRIMES is in P". [1]
A primality test is an algorithm for determining whether an input number is prime.Among other fields of mathematics, it is used for cryptography.Unlike integer factorization, primality tests do not generally give prime factors, only stating whether the input number is prime or not.
Suppose we wish to determine whether n = 221 is prime.Randomly pick 1 < a < 220, say a = 38.We check the above congruence and find that it holds: = (). Either 221 is prime, or 38 is a Fermat liar, so we take another a, say 24:
The idea beneath this test is that when n is an odd prime, it passes the test because of two facts: by Fermat's little theorem, () (this property alone defines the weaker notion of probable prime to base a, on which the Fermat test is based); the only square roots of 1 modulo n are 1 and −1.
Prime decomposition of n = 864 as 2 5 × 3 3. By the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, every positive integer has a unique prime factorization. (By convention, 1 is the empty product.) Testing whether the integer is prime can be done in polynomial time, for example, by the AKS primality test. If composite, however, the polynomial time tests ...
This prime is a few digits smaller than m (or N) so q will be easier to prove prime than N. Assuming we find a curve which passes the criterion, proceed to calculate mP and kP . If any of the two calculations produce an undefined expression, we can get a non-trivial factor of N .
We continue recursively in this manner until we reach a number known to be prime, such as 2. We end up with a tree of prime numbers, each associated with a witness a. For example, here is a complete Pratt certificate for the number 229: 229 (a = 6, 229 − 1 = 2 2 × 3 × 19), 2 (known prime), 3 (a = 2, 3 − 1 = 2), 2 (known prime),
PRISM is a probabilistic model checker, a formal verification software tool for the modelling and analysis of systems that exhibit probabilistic behaviour. [1] PRISM was introduced around 2002 in the context of Parker's PhD work and is still under active development (as of 2024).