Dynamical characterization of infinitely many Mersenne primes

Let M(n)=2n1M(n)=2^n-1. Let δ\delta be the doubling map on angles, and let kqk_q denote the period of the angle 1/q1/q under δ\delta. For a prime qq, consider primes qq satisfying 1<qM(n)1<q\leq \left\lfloor\sqrt{M(n)}\right\rfloor.

Dynamical Mersenne-prime conjecture. For every n0>0n_0>0, there exists a prime integer n>n0n>n_0 such that, for every prime qq with 1<qM(n)1<q\leq \left\lfloor\sqrt{M(n)}\right\rfloor, the angle 1/q1/q has period kqnk_q\ne n under the doubling map δ\delta.

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 nn. 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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