Dold-condition conjecture for discriminant-scaled Lucas sequences along square indices

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For integers P,QP,Q, define the Lucas sequence (Un(P,Q))(U_n(P,Q)) by

x1−Px+Qx2=∑n=0∞Un(P,Q)xn.\frac{x}{1-Px+Qx^2}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}U_n(P,Q)x^n.

The sequence is said to satisfy the Dold condition when its associated Dold congruences hold. Lucas-sequence conjecture. For every P,Q∈ZP,Q\in\mathbb{Z}, the sequence

((P2−4Q)Un2(P,Q))\bigl((P^2-4Q)U_{n^2}(P,Q)\bigr)

satisfies the Dold condition.

The conjecture extends the paper's established realizability result for (5Un2(1,−1))(5U_{n^2}(1,-1)) and is motivated by numerical experiments; no resolution is given here.

References

Primary source

Patrick Moss and Tom Ward, “Fibonacci along even powers is (almost) realizable”, arXiv:2011.13068 (2020).

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