Skolem's exponential local-global principle for simple rational LRBS

Let u=unn=\boldsymbol u=\langle u_n\rangle_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} be a simple rational LRBS taking values in Z[1b]\mathbb{Z}[\frac{1}{b}] for some non-zero integer bb. A sequence has no zero when un0u_n\neq 0 for every nZn\in\mathbb{Z}. Skolem's exponential local-global principle. The sequence u\boldsymbol u has no zero if and only if there is an integer m2m\geq 2 with gcd(b,m)=1\gcd(b,m)=1 such that un≢0(modm)u_n\not\equiv 0\pmod m for every nZn\in\mathbb{Z}. This principle says that the absence of an integer zero in a simple rational LRBS should be witnessed by a single modulus; it is introduced as a conjecture motivating the Bi-Skolem Problem, and its status is not resolved in the supplied source.

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Yuri Bilu, Florian Luca, Joris Nieuwveld, Joël Ouaknine, David Purser and James Worrell, “Skolem Meets Schanuel”, arXiv:2204.13417 (2022).

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