The Apéry-number prime divisibility proportion conjecture
The Apéry-number prime divisibility proportion conjecture
Let denote the Apéry numbers, and let a prime divide the sequence if it divides at least one term . The Apéry-number proportion conjecture. The proportion of primes that do not divide any Apéry number is
This is based on a heuristic treating the values modulo a prime as independent and uniformly random, together with the Lucas congruences and a palindromic congruence. The source presents numerical evidence but no proof.
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Primary source
Amita Malik and Armin Straub, “Divisibility properties of sporadic Apéry-like numbers”, arXiv:1508.00297 (2015).
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