A search for primes $p$ such that Euler number $E_{p-3}$ is divisible by $p$
Abstract
Let be a prime. Euler numbers first appeared in H. S. Vandiver's work (1940) in connection with the first case of Fermat Last Theorem. Vandiver proved that has no solution for integers with if . Numerous combinatorial congruences recently obtained by Z.-W. Sun and by Z.-H. Sun involve the Euler numbers . This gives a new significance to the primes for which . For the computation of residues of Euler numbers modulo a prime , we use the congruence which runs significantly faster than other known congruences involving . Applying this congruence, a computation via {\tt Mathematica 8} shows that only three primes less than 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 such that . Moreover, we propose a conjecture on the asymptotic estimate of number of primes in an interval such that for some integer with .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.3602,
title = {A search for primes $p$ such that Euler number $E_{p-3}$ is divisible by $p$},
author = {Romeo Mestrovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.3602},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
10 pages. We reported that only three primes $p\in\{149,241,2946901\}$ less than $10^7$ satisfy the condition that related Euler numbers $E_{p-3}$ are divisible by $p$. Nevertheless, we conjecture that there are infinitely many such primes