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Incidence Obstructions for Power Products in Elliptic Divisibility Sequences

Number Theory 2026-05-26 v1

Abstract

Let E/QE/\mathbb Q be an elliptic curve, let PE(Q)P\in E(\mathbb Q) be non-torsion, and let (Dn)(D_n) be the associated elliptic divisibility sequence. We study when a product i=1kDni \prod_{i=1}^k D_{n_i} can be a ρ\rho-th power, where ρ\rho is a fixed prime. Our obstructions concern the incidence of prime divisors among the indices nin_i, rather than the prime factorisation of individual EDS terms. Assuming that D1D_1 is divisible by 22 or 33, we show that sufficiently large primes \ell occurring as simple largest prime divisors of the indices, with ni/n_i/\ell BB-smooth whenever ni\ell\mid n_i, must occur in ρ\rho-balanced incidence blocks. In particular, for a finite family of such primes, the associated incidence rows are disjoint, linearly independent over Fρ\mathbb F_\rho, and satisfy Λk/ρ. |\Lambda^\ast|\le \lfloor k/\rho\rfloor .

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@article{arxiv.2605.25797,
  title  = {Incidence Obstructions for Power Products in Elliptic Divisibility Sequences},
  author = {Dongyeon Kym},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25797},
  year   = {2026}
}

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22 pages

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