Primitive Divisors of Certain Elliptic Divisibility Sequences
Number Theory
2011-12-06 v3
Abstract
Let be a non-torsion point on the elliptic curve . We show that if is fourth-power-free and either is even or is odd with or a perfect square, then the -th element of the elliptic divisibility sequence generated by 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