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Uniform explicit Stewart's theorem on prime factors of linear recurrences

Number Theory 2022-10-04 v5

Abstract

Stewart (2013) proved that the biggest prime divisor of the nnth term of a Lucas sequence of integers grows quicker than nn, answering famous questions of Erd\H{o}s and Schinzel. In this note we obtain a fully explicit and, in a sense, uniform version of Stewart's result.

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@article{arxiv.2108.09857,
  title  = {Uniform explicit Stewart's theorem on prime factors of linear recurrences},
  author = {Yuri Bilu and Haojie Hong and Sanoli Gun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09857},
  year   = {2022}
}