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Criteria for testing Wall’s question

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In this paper we find certain equivalent formulations of Wall’s question and derive two interesting criteria that can be used to resolve this question for particular primes.

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    Jiří Klaška

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Klaška, J. Criteria for testing Wall’s question. Czech Math J 58, 1241–1246 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10587-008-0083-y

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