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2013 On divisors of Lucas and Lehmer numbers
Cameron L. Stewart
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Acta Math. 211(2): 291-314 (2013). DOI: 10.1007/s11511-013-0105-y

Abstract

Let un be the nth term of a Lucas sequence or a Lehmer sequence. In this article we shall establish an estimate from below for the greatest prime factor of un which is of the form n exp(log n/104 log log n). In doing so, we are able to resolve a question of Schinzel from 1962 and a conjecture of Erdős from 1965. In addition we are able to give the first general improvement on results of Bang from 1886 and Carmichael from 1912.

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Research supported in part by the Canada Research Chairs Program and by Grant A3528 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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Cameron L. Stewart. "On divisors of Lucas and Lehmer numbers." Acta Math. 211 (2) 291 - 314, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11511-013-0105-y

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Received: 2 February 2012; Revised: 16 November 2012; Published: 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 31 January 2017

zbMATH: 1362.11070
MathSciNet: MR3143892
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/s11511-013-0105-y

Rights: 2013 © Institut Mittag-Leffler

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