PRIMES IN A PRESCRIBED ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION DIVIDING THE SEQUENCE \{a^k+b^k\}_{k=1}^{\infty}

DOI10.1142/S1793042109002316MaRDI QIDQ3635801zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pieter Moree, Balasubramanian Sury

Publication date 6 July 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703925

zbMATH Keywords

applications of the Chebotarev density theoremprimes in progressions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Distribution of integers in special residue classes (11N69)

Abstract: Given positive integers a,b,c and d such that c and d are coprime we show that the primes p=c(mod d)dividing a^k+b^k for some k>=1 have a natural density and explicitly compute this density. We demonstrate our results by considering some claims of Fermat that he made in a 1641 letter to Mersenne.

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