On the discriminator of Lucas sequences. II
Abstract
The family of Shallit sequences consists of the Lucas sequences satisfying the recurrence with initial values and and with arbitrary. For every fixed the integers are distinct, and hence for every there exists a smallest integer , called discriminator, such that are pairwise incongruent modulo In part I it was proved that there exists a constant such that has a simple characterization for every . Here, we study the values not following this characterization and provide an upper bound for using Matveev's theorem and the Koksma-Erdos-Tur\'an inequality. We completely determine the discriminator for every and a set of integers of natural density . We also correct an omission in the statement of Theorem 3 in part I.
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@article{arxiv.2309.12843,
title = {On the discriminator of Lucas sequences. II},
author = {Matteo Ferrari and Florian Luca and Pieter Moree},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12843},
year = {2023}
}
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