Prime-value conjecture for the periodic-continued-fraction polynomials

Let fn(x)f_n(x) be the polynomial sequence defined earlier in the paper, and let aa be a positive integer. Prime-value conjecture. For every positive integer aa, there are infinitely many nNn\in\mathbb{N} such that fn(a)|f_n(a)| is a prime number. If true, this would show that the condition on the exponent of pp in the second part of the paper's cited theorem cannot be dropped. The assertion is presented as an open conjecture and is distinct from the irreducibility conjecture, since it fixes aa and varies nn.

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Laura Capuano, Marzio Mula, Lea Terracini and Francesco Veneziano, “p-Adically convergent loci in varieties arising from periodic continued fractions”, arXiv:2402.00739 (2026).

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