A search for primes p such that the Euler number E_p-3 is divisible by p

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-2014-02814-7MaRDI QIDQ3189459zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Romeo Meštrović

Publication date 10 September 2014

Published in Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3602

zbMATH Keywords

Euler numberFermat quotientsupercongruence\(E_{p-3}\)congruence modulo a prime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

Abstract: Let $p>3$ be a prime. Euler numbers $E_{p-3}$ first appeared in H. S. Vandiver's work (1940) in connection with the first case of Fermat Last Theorem. Vandiver proved that $x^p+y^p=z^p$ has no solution for integers $x,y,z$ with $gcd(xyz,p)=1$ if $$. Numerous combinatorial congruences recently obtained by Z.-W. Sun and by Z.-H. Sun involve the Euler numbers $E_{p-3}$. This gives a new significance to the primes $p$ for which $$. For the computation of residues of Euler numbers $E_{p-3}$ modulo a prime $p$, we use the congruence which runs significantly faster than other known congruences involving $E_{p-3}$. Applying this congruence, a computation via { t Mathematica 8} shows that only three primes less than $10^7$ satisfy the condition $$ (such primes are 149, 241 and 2946901, and they are given as a Sloane's sequence A198245). By using related computational results and statistical considerations similar to those on search for Wieferich and Fibonacci-Wieferich and Wolstenholme primes, we conjecture that there are infinitely many primes $p$ such that $$. Moreover, we propose a conjecture on the asymptotic estimate of number of primes $p$ in an interval $[x,y]$ such that $$ for some integer $A$ with $|A|in[K,L]$.

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