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Fermat's two-square theorem for primes

Statement

A prime $p$ is a sum of two integer squares if and only if $p = 2$ or $p \equiv 1 (m o d 4)$ (Representations and primitive representations as sums of two squares).

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A prime $p$ .

[F1]

A representation of a nonnegative integer $n$ as a sum of two squares is an ordered pair $(x, y) \in Z^{2}$ such that $n = x^{2} + y^{2}$ (Representations and primitive representations as sums of two squares).

[L1]

If $p$ is prime, $p ∤ a$ , then there are nonzero integers $r, s$ with $∣ r ∣, ∣ s ∣ < \sqrt{p}$ and $r a \equiv s (m o d p)$ (Thue's lemma on small nonzero representatives).

[L2]

For an odd prime $p$ , $(- 1 / p) = 1$ if and only if $p \equiv 1 (m o d 4)$ (First supplement: $(- 1 / p) = (- 1)^{(p - 1) / 2}$ ).

[F2]

For an odd prime $p$ , $(a / p) = 1$ means that $p ∤ a$ and $a$ is a quadratic residue modulo $p$ (The Legendre symbol, including its zero value).

[F3]

The congruence $a \equiv b (m o d n)$ means that $n ∣ (a - b)$ (Congruence modulo an integer: $a \equiv b (m o d n)$ when $n ∣ (a - b)$ , including the moduli $0$ and $1$ ).

Proof

technique · direct

1.1givenF1algebra

If an odd prime satisfies $p = x^{2} + y^{2}$ , the square residues modulo $4$ show that $x, y$ have opposite parity and hence $p \equiv 1 (m o d 4)$ .

1.2F1algebra

The remaining even prime has the representation $2 = 1^{2} + 1^{2}$ .

1.3givenL2F2F3choose

For the converse direction, suppose $p \equiv 1 (m o d 4)$ . Then $p$ is odd, and [L2] and [F2] provide an integer $a$ with $a^{2} \equiv - 1 (m o d p)$ and $p ∤ a$ .

2.1step 1.3L1F3

Apply [L1] to this $a$ to obtain nonzero integers $r, s$ with $∣ r ∣, ∣ s ∣ < \sqrt{p}$ and $r a \equiv s (m o d p)$ .

3.1step 1.3step 2.1F1F3algebra

Squaring the congruence in step 2.1 and using $a^{2} \equiv - 1$ gives $p ∣ r^{2} + s^{2}$ . Moreover $0 < r^{2} + s^{2} < p + p = 2 p$ . The only positive multiple of $p$ below $2 p$ is $p$ , so $p = r^{2} + s^{2}$ .

4.1step 1.1step 1.2step 3.1∎

Step 1.1 proves necessity for odd primes, step 1.2 handles $p = 2$ , and step 3.1 proves sufficiency when $p \equiv 1 (m o d 4)$ .

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Sources

P. Hackman, Elementary Number Theory, Chapter E, Theorem E.I.2 (standard reference, not scraped)
W. Stein, Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets, Theorem 5.7.1 (standard reference, not scraped)