Exact valuation conjecture for Somos-4 and Somos-5 sequences
Exact valuation conjecture for Somos-4 and Somos-5 sequences
Let be the terms of the Somos- sequence with , with parameters and initial values
Set , and define
Exact valuation conjecture. For the relevant integers and , one has
The claim refines the known arithmetic divisibility pattern for the unit-initial-value Somos-4 and Somos-5 sequences. It is proposed conditionally on proving that, for odd primes, the multiples of a prime in these sequences are not divisible by exactly the same power of that prime; the supplied text does not establish the conjecture or specify the ranges of and .
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Primary source
Peter H van der Kamp, “Somos-4 and Somos-5 are arithmetic divisibility sequences”, arXiv:1505.00194 (2015).
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