Elliptic Fermat numbers and elliptic divisibility sequences

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Authors Alexandra Walsh, Seo Young Kim

Publication date 25 March 2022

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03846, http://math.colgate.edu/~integers/u29/u29.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic divisibility sequenceselliptic Fermat numbersFermat numbersprimality conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primes (11A41) Recurrences (11B37) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05)

Abstract: For a pair $(E,P)$ of an elliptic curve $E/mathbbQ$ and a nontorsion point $PinE(mathbbQ)$, the sequence of emph{elliptic Fermat numbers} is defined by taking quotients of terms in the corresponding elliptic divisibility sequence $(D_n{)}_{ninmathbbN}$ with index powers of two, i.e. $D_1$, $D_2/D_1$, $D_4/D_2$, etc. Elliptic Fermat numbers share many properties with the classical Fermat numbers, $F_k=2^{2^k}+1$. In the present paper, we show that for magnified elliptic Fermat sequences, only finitely many terms are prime. We also define emph{generalized elliptic Fermat numbers} by taking quotients of terms in elliptic divisibility sequences that correspond to powers of any integer $m$, and show that many of the classical Fermat properties, including coprimality, order universality and compositeness, still hold.

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