Linear-density conjecture for primitive divisors in quadratic polynomial sequences
Linear-density conjecture for primitive divisors in quadratic polynomial sequences
Let be a nonzero integer and define the sequence by
A term has a primitive divisor if it has a prime divisor that divides no earlier nonzero term of the sequence. Suppose that is not a square. If denotes the number of terms with that have primitive divisors, then the primitive-divisor density conjecture.
for some constant satisfying . The preceding theorem establishes infinitely many terms without primitive divisors, while this conjecture predicts that the terms with primitive divisors nevertheless have a positive density strictly less than one.
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G. Everest, S. Stevens, D. Tamsett and T. Ward, “Primes Generated by Recurrence Sequences”, arXiv:math/0412079 (2006).
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