Speaker:
Alexander Abatzoglou
Institution:
University of California, Irvine, Math. Department
Time:
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 9:00am
Location:
Rowland Hall 440R
Advisor - Prof. Alice Silverberg
Abstract - For any imaginary quadratic field $K$, number field $F$ containing the Hilbert class field of $K$, elliptic curve $E / F$ with complex multiplication by $K$, and sequence of numbers $F_k$ of "special" form we give an efficient deterministic primality (and compositeness) test on $F_k$. These primality tests are an extension of the Lucas primality test to the setting of elliptic curves. In particular, for every prime $p$ in the sequence $F_k$, we need to know $|E(\Z / p\Z)|$. To satisfy this requirement we restrict to the setting of CM elliptic curves.