Some remarks on small values of (n)

DOI10.1007/S00013-021-01661-6MaRDI QIDQ2052368zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kaya Lakein, Anne Larsen

Publication date 26 November 2021

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03556

zbMATH Keywords

Lehmer's conjectureLucas sequencesRamanujan's tau-function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms (11F30)

Abstract: A natural variant of Lehmer's conjecture that the Ramanujan $au$-function never vanishes asks whether, for any given integer $alpha$, there exist any $ninmathbb{Z}^{+}$ such that $au(n)=alpha$. A series of recent papers excludes many integers as possible values of the $au$-function using the theory of primitive divisors of Lucas numbers, computations of integer points on curves, and congruences for $au(n)$. We synthesize these results and methods to prove that if $0<|alpha|<100$ and $alphaotinT:=2^k,-24,-48,-70,-90,92,-96$, then $au(n)eqalpha$ for all $n>1$. Moreover, if $alphainT$ and $au(n)=alpha$, then $n$ is square-free with prescribed prime factorization. Finally, we show that a strong form of the Atkin-Serre conjecture implies that $|au(n)|>100$ for all $n>2$.

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