Conjecture on singularity of the Pell matrix at exceptional primes
Conjecture on singularity of the Pell matrix at exceptional primes
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Let be an odd prime, so that , and let denote the matrix defined in the paper.
Singularity conjecture. The matrix is singular if and only if
The conjecture is motivated by a computation through and the preceding equivalence between singularity and the congruence . The supplied span gives no proof or disproof.
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Hai-Liang Wu, Li-Yuan Wang and He-Xia Ni, “The Pell sequence and cyclotomic matrices involving squares over finite fields”, arXiv:2501.01667 (2025).
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