Somos-4 and Somos-5 are arithmetic divisibility sequences

DOI10.1080/10236198.2015.1113272MaRDI QIDQ3186000zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter H. van der Kamp

Publication date 8 August 2016

Published in Journal of Difference Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00194

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic divisibility sequenceLaurent propertymodified sets of differencesprimesSomos sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recurrences (11B37) Special sequences and polynomials (11B83)

Abstract: We provide an elementary proof to a conjecture by Robinson that multiples of (powers of) primes in the Somos-4 sequence are equally spaced. We also show, almost as a corollary, for the generalised Somos-4 sequence defined by $$ and initial values $a{u}_1=a{u}_2=a{u}_3=a{u}_4=1$, that the polynomial $$ is a divisor of $$ for all $n,kinmathbbZ$ and establish a similar result for the generalized Somos-5 sequence.

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