Squares in (2² - 1) (n^2 - 1) and p-adic valuation

DOI10.1142/S1793557110000234MaRDI QIDQ3575408zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xingjiang Liu, Shaofang Hong

Publication date 27 July 2010

Published in Asian-European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3366

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-adic valuationdetermination of squares in a sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Recurrences (11B37) Congruences in many variables (11D79)

Abstract: In this paper, we determine all the squares in the sequence ${pro{d}_{k=2}^n(k^2-1)}_{n=2}^{i}nfty$. From this, one deduces that there are infinitely many squares in this sequence. We also give a formula for the $p$-adic valuation of the terms in this sequence.

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