The Apéry-number prime divisibility proportion conjecture

Let A(n)A(n) denote the Apéry numbers, and let a prime divide the sequence if it divides at least one term A(n)A(n). The Apéry-number proportion conjecture. The proportion of primes that do not divide any Apéry number A(n)A(n) is

e1/2.e^{-1/2}.

This is based on a heuristic treating the values A(n)A(n) 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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