Wolstenholme and Vandiver primes
Number Theory
2022-03-29 v2
Abstract
A prime is a Wolstenholme prime if mod , or, equivalently, if divides the numerator of the Bernoulli number ; a Vandiver prime is one that divides the Euler number . Only two Wolstenholme primes and eight Vandiver primes are known. We increase the search range in the first case by a factor of , and show that no additional Wolstenholme primes exist up to , and in the second case by a factor of , proving that no additional Vandiver primes occur up to this same bound. To facilitate this, we develop a number of new congruences for Bernoulli and Euler numbers mod that are favorable for computation, and we implement some highly parallel searches using GPUs.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2101.11157,
title = {Wolstenholme and Vandiver primes},
author = {Andrew R. Booker and Shehzad Hathi and Michael J. Mossinghoff and Timothy S. Trudgian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11157},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
26 pages; to appear in Ramanujan J