use semi-primitive root when checking kernel polynomials of isogenies #36187
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The existing code takes a generating set of the unit group, but as a comment in the code suggests, a set of generators for$(\mathbb Z/m)^\times/\pm$ suffices. The existing function $m$ is an odd prime power, so we may use it.
_least_semi_primitive
computes such a semiprimitive root when