Primitive divisor conjecture with a finite exceptional divisor bound

Let (an)(a_n) be the sequence under consideration, and call a prime divisor of ana_n primitive if it does not divide any earlier term aka_k with k<nk<n.

Primitive divisor conjecture. The term ana_n has a primitive prime divisor for all but finitely many nn. Moreover, there exists a positive integer MM such that, whenever ana_n does not have a primitive divisor,

nM.n\mid M.

This is presented as a generalization of Zsigmondy's theorem. The supplied status is unknown, so it remains open in the database.

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Primary source

Masum Billal, “Exponent Lifting Property of Integer Sequences”, arXiv:1509.03288 (2021).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2015). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0707.2505.

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