The ABC conjecture and the powerful part of terms in binary recurring sequences (Q1284204)

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The ABC conjecture and the powerful part of terms in binary recurring sequences
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    The ABC conjecture and the powerful part of terms in binary recurring sequences (English)
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    30 March 1999
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    Binary recurrence sequences have many interesting arithmetic properties like identities and divisibility properties. Under a certain assumption -- the so-called ABC conjecture is true -- such sequences with a positive discriminant have only finitely many terms which are powerful numbers. Here a natural number \(n\) is powerful if \(p^2\) divides \(n\) whenever a prime \(p\) divides \(n\).
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    binary recurrence sequence
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    ABC conjecture
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    powerful numbers
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