A note on the least totient of a residue class
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Let $q$ be a large prime number, $a$ be any integer, $ε$ be a fixed small positive quantity. Friedlander and Shparlinksi \cite{FSh} have shown that there exists a positive integer $n\ll q^{5/2+ε}$ such that $ϕ(n)$ falls into the residue class $a \pmod q.$ Here, $ϕ(n)$ denotes Euler's function. In the present paper we improve this bound to $n\ll q^{2+ε}.$
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