Quadratic sequences with prime power discriminators
Number Theory
2022-10-10 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
The discriminator of an integer sequence , introduced by Arnold, Benkoski, and McCabe in 1985, is the function that sends to the least integer such that the numbers are pairwise incongruent modulo . In this note, we try to determine all quadratic sequences whose discriminator is given by for prime , i.e., the smallest power of which is . We determine all such sequences for , show that there are none for , and provide some partial results for .
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@article{arxiv.2209.03265,
title = {Quadratic sequences with prime power discriminators},
author = {Sajed Haque},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.03265},
year = {2022}
}
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