Everest–Miller–Stephens primality conjecture for elliptic divisibility sequences

Let D=(Dn)nND=(D_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}} be an elliptic divisibility sequence. Primality conjecture. The sequence DD contains only finitely many prime terms. Everest, Miller, and Stephens proved this conjecture for magnified elliptic divisibility sequences; the general statement remains presented here as a conjecture. The contrast with the Fibonacci sequence, for which primes are conjectured to occur infinitely often, motivates the question.

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Seoyoung Kim and Alexandra Walsh, “Elliptic Fermat numbers and elliptic divisibility sequence”, arXiv:1808.03846 (2018).

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