Incidence Obstructions for Power Products in Elliptic Divisibility Sequences
Number Theory
2026-05-26 v1
Abstract
Let be an elliptic curve, let be non-torsion, and let be the associated elliptic divisibility sequence. We study when a product can be a -th power, where is a fixed prime. Our obstructions concern the incidence of prime divisors among the indices , rather than the prime factorisation of individual EDS terms. Assuming that is divisible by or , we show that sufficiently large primes occurring as simple largest prime divisors of the indices, with -smooth whenever , must occur in -balanced incidence blocks. In particular, for a finite family of such primes, the associated incidence rows are disjoint, linearly independent over , and satisfy
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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