The uniform primality conjecture for elliptic curves
Number Theory
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
An elliptic divisibility sequence, generated by a point in the image of a rational isogeny, is shown to possess a uniformly bounded number of prime terms. This result applies over the rational numbers, assuming Lang's conjecture, and over the rational function field, unconditionally. In the latter case, a uniform bound is obtained on the index of a prime term. Sharpened versions of these techniques are shown to lead to explicit results where all the irreducible terms can be computed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.2696,
title = {The uniform primality conjecture for elliptic curves},
author = {Graham Everest and Patrick Ingram and Valery Mahe and Shaun Stevens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.2696},
year = {2015}
}
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