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Effective results on the Skolem Problem for linear recurrence sequences

Number Theory 2018-10-03 v6

Abstract

In this paper, given a simple linear recurrence sequence of algebraic numbers, which has either a dominant characteristic root or exactly two characteristic roots of maximal modulus, we give some explicit lower bounds for the index beyond which every term of the sequence is non-zero. It turns out that this case covers almost all such sequences whose coefficients are rational numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1505.07147,
  title  = {Effective results on the Skolem Problem for linear recurrence sequences},
  author = {Min Sha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.07147},
  year   = {2018}
}

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20 pages, to appear in Journal of Number Theory

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