A101710 Primes p for which the least-magnitude negative primitive root is not a primitive root of p^2. Like A055578, but for negative rather than positive primitive roots.
3, 11, 3511, 6692367337
Offset: 1
Examples
-3 is a primitive root of 11. That is, the successive powers of -3 work through all the nonzero residues modulo 11 before coming round through 1 to -3 again: -3, -2, -5, 4, -1, 3, 2, 5, -4, 1, -3, ... -3 also happens to be the negative number of least magnitude with this property (-1 obviously fails, -2 yields -2, 4, 3, 5, 1, -2 ...) Modulo 11^2 = 121, however, successive powers of -3 do not yield all the corresponding residues (that is, all the ones which aren't multiples of 11): we only get -3, 9, -27, 81, -1, 3, -9, 27, -81, 1, -3, ...
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