Somos 4 conjecture for the elliptic-curve family sequence

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Let bnb_n be the sequence whose generating function is

g(x)=1+3t+t2−x1+2(t+2)xc(x2(1+3t+t2−x)(1+2(t+2)x)2),g(x)=\frac{1+3t+t^2-x}{1+2(t+2)x}c\left(\frac{x^2(1+3t+t^2-x)}{(1+2(t+2)x)^2}\right),

arising from the elliptic-curve family Et:y2+4xy+y=x3+(t−1)x2+txE_t:y^2+4xy+y=x^3+(t-1)x^2+tx. A (α,β)(\alpha,\beta) Somos 44 sequence satisfies

en=αen−1en−3+βen−22en−4.e_n=\frac{\alpha e_{n-1}e_{n-3}+\beta e_{n-2}^2}{e_{n-4}}.

Elliptic-curve family Somos 4 conjecture. The Hankel transform of bnb_n is a

((2t3+10t2+14t+5)2,−3t8−40t7−222t6−666t5−1173t4−1230t3−740t2−29(8t+1))\left((2t^3+10t^2+14t+5)^2,-3t^8-40t^7-222t^6-666t^5-1173t^4-1230t^3-740t^2-29(8t+1)\right)

Somos 44 sequence. The conjecture links this family of elliptic curves to a parameterized Somos 44 recurrence.

References

Primary source

Paul Barry, “Generalized Catalan recurrences, Riordan arrays, elliptic curves, and orthogonal polynomials”, arXiv:1910.00875 (2019).

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