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Primitive Divisors of Certain Elliptic Divisibility Sequences

Number Theory 2011-12-06 v3

Abstract

Let PP be a non-torsion point on the elliptic curve Ea:y2=x3+axE_{a}: y^{2}=x^{3}+ax. We show that if aa is fourth-power-free and either n>2n>2 is even or n>1n>1 is odd with x(P)<0x(P)<0 or x(P)x(P) a perfect square, then the nn-th element of the elliptic divisibility sequence generated by PP always has a primitive divisor.

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@article{arxiv.1009.0872,
  title  = {Primitive Divisors of Certain Elliptic Divisibility Sequences},
  author = {Paul Voutier and Minoru Yabuta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0872},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

version accepted for publication. Difference of heights result moved to http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4645 and improved. Proof simplified to remove need for special cases when n>20

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