Marques–Lengyel valuation conjecture for the Tribonacci sequence
Marques–Lengyel valuation conjecture for the Tribonacci sequence
Let ) be a prime number, and let be the Tribonacci sequence defined by , , and . Write for the exponent of in a nonzero integer , with . Marques–Lengyel's conjecture. There \exists a positive integer such that, for every , one of the following holds: (C) there \exists such that, for all but finitely many integers , ; or (L) there exist , , and satisfying such that, for all but finitely many integers , . This conjecture predicts a finite residue-class description of the -adic valuations of Tribonacci numbers; the paper later gives infinitely many primes for which it fails, so its status is refuted.
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Yuri Bilu, Florian Luca, Joris Nieuwveld, Jöel Ouaknine and James Worrell, “On the p-adic zeros of the Tribonacci sequence”, arXiv:2210.16959 (2022).
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