Dynamical characterization of infinitely many Mersenne primes
Dynamical characterization of infinitely many Mersenne primes
Let . Let be the doubling map on angles, and let denote the period of the angle under . For a prime , consider primes satisfying .
Dynamical Mersenne-prime conjecture. For every , there exists a prime integer such that, for every prime with , the angle has period under the doubling map .
By the preceding theorem, the condition is intended as a dynamical reformulation of the existence of infinitely many prime Mersenne numbers: the relevant small prime denominators do not yield periods equal to . The supplied text does not give a resolution of this formulation.
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Lluís Alsedà, Antonio Garijo and Xavier Jarque, “Mersenne numbers and the doubling map”, arXiv:2605.29130 (2026).
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