Variations of Lehmer's conjecture for Ramanujan's tau-function

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2020.04.009MaRDI QIDQ2127192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jennifer S. Balakrishnan, Ken Ono, William Craig

Publication date 20 April 2022

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10345

zbMATH Keywords

Thue equationLehmer's conjectureRamanujan's tau-functionprimitive divisors of Lucas sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61) Linear forms in logarithms; Baker's method (11J86)

Abstract: We consider natural variants of Lehmer's unresolved conjecture that Ramanujan's tau-function never vanishes. Namely, for $n>1$ we prove that ${\displaystyle }$ au(n) ot in {pm 1, pm 3, pm 5, pm 7, pm 691}.${\displaystyle }$ This result is an example of general theorems for newforms with trivial mod 2 residual Galois representation, which will appear in forthcoming work of the authors with Wei-Lun Tsai. Ramanujan's well-known congruences for $au(n)$ allow for the simplified proof in these special cases. We make use of the theory of Lucas sequences, the Chabauty-Coleman method for hyperelliptic curves, and facts about certain Thue equations.

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