On a question of Witno concerning hypothetical elite primes for Mersenne numbers and repunits
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On a question of Witno concerning hypothetical elite primes for Mersenne numbers and repunits
zbMATH Open document ID: 1525.11006
author: Adel Alahmadi
author: Florian Luca
published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2023-08-23T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: rmj.2023.53.679.full
review text: The repunits base \(b\) are \(M_{b,q}=\frac{b^q-1}{b-1}\), \(q\geq 1\), which coincide with the generalized Mersenne numbers when \(q\) is a prime, and in particular with the ordinary Mersenne numbers \(M_{2,q}\). We are concerned with prime numbers \(p\) such that \(M_{b,q}\) is a quadratic residue mod \(p\) for all sufficiently large primes \(q\). Such are called hypothetical elite primes, in reference to the original elite primes, which are associated with the Fermat numbers, not Mersenne. This article is a response to a challenge question: it is now settled that the reciprocal sum of hypothetical elite primes is finite, having their counting function of size \(O\left(\frac{x}{(\log\log x)^2\log x}\right)\).
reviewed by: Amin Witno
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11A15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11A41
zbMATH DE Number: 7731138
zbMATH Keywords: elite primes
zbMATH Keywords: sieve methods
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
Wikidata QID: Q121872843
OpenAlex ID: W4385079418
cites work: Q5464359
cites work: Q4135671
cites work: Q5784076
cites work: The large sieve
cites work: Q5144733
DOI: 10.1216/RMJ.2023.53.679
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7731138