Density-zero conjecture for prime divisors in the orbit of zero under x21x^2-1

Let f(x)=x21f(x)=x^2-1, and for an integer n2n\geqslant 2 let P(n)P(n) denote the set of prime numbers arising in the associated sequence defined in the paper. Density-zero conjecture. For every nZ2n\in {\mathbb Z}_{\geqslant 2}, P(n)P(n) is a set of prime numbers of density zero. The set P(n)P(n) is known to be infinite and not to have full density; the conjectured density-zero statement remains open.

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Primary source

Ivan Penkov and Michael Stoll, “Prime numbers and dynamics of the polynomial x^2-1”, arXiv:2502.11929 (2025).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2310.14149, arXiv:1805.09047, arXiv:1101.0050.

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