Paper 4, Section II, H
Part II, 2015
State the Chinese Remainder Theorem.
Let be an odd positive integer. Define the Jacobi symbol . Which of the following statements are true, and which are false? Give a proof or counterexample as appropriate.
(i) If then the congruence is soluble.
(ii) If is not a square then .
(iii) If is composite then there exists an integer a coprime to with
(iv) If is composite then there exists an integer coprime to with