Valuation Separation for Coprime Lucas Products
Abstract
Let be a nondegenerate Lucas sequence with and discriminant . We study Diophantine equations where the indices are pairwise coprime. The strong divisibility property implies that the factors are pairwise coprime, and hence a global -th power condition separates into local valuation conditions on the individual factors. For , this gives a termwise square-class restriction: each has signed squarefree part supported on the primes dividing . In particular, the equation , with , reduces to a finite square-class compatibility condition together with an integrality condition. Assuming the number-field conjecture over , we prove that only finitely many Lucas terms have squarefree part supported on a fixed finite set of rational primes. Consequently, the coprime product equations above admit an -conditional finite reduction. We also give the corresponding -th power analogue and a primitive-divisor obstruction.
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@article{arxiv.2605.24909,
title = {Valuation Separation for Coprime Lucas Products},
author = {Dongyeon Kym},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.24909},
year = {2026}
}
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