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Prime ideal divisors of parametric recurrence sequences

Number Theory 2026-02-09 v1

Abstract

We prove new arithmetic results for parametric linear recurrence sequences specialized at roots of unity, denoted by (Un(ζ))n0(U_n(\zeta))_{n\geq 0}. In particular, we obtain exponential lower bounds for the largest prime ideal divisor and norm of the radical of the principal ideal generated by Un(ζ)U_n(\zeta). We further derive an effective upper bound for the SS-part of Un(ζ)U_n(\zeta), showing that it is strictly smaller than a fixed power of its absolute norm for sufficiently large nn. Finally, we establish an effective finiteness result for Diophantine equations of the form Un(ζ)=w1++wr,U_n(\zeta)=w_1+\cdots+w_r, with SS-unit variables.

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@article{arxiv.2602.06667,
  title  = {Prime ideal divisors of parametric recurrence sequences},
  author = {Darsana N and Sudhansu Sekhar Rout},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06667},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages

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