• DOI:10.4064/AA8265-4-2016
Corpus ID: 119673003

The density of primes dividing a particular non-linear recurrence sequence

@article{Gorman2015TheDO,
  title={The density of primes dividing a particular non-linear recurrence sequence},
  author={A. Gorman and Tyler Genao and Heesu Hwang and Noam Kantor and Sarah Parsons and Jeremy A. Rouse},
  journal={arXiv: Number Theory},
  year={2015}
}

• A. Gorman, Tyler Genao, +3 authors Jeremy A. Rouse
• Published 2015
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Number Theory

Define the sequence $\{b_n\}$ by $b_0=1,b_1=1, b_2=2,b_3=1$, and $$b_n=\begin{cases} \frac{b_{n-1}b_{n-3}-b_{n-2}^2}{b_{n-4}}&\textrm{if}~ n\not\equiv 0\pmod 3, \frac{b_{n-1}b_{n-3}-3b_{n-2}^2}{b_{n-4}}&\textrm{if}~ n\equiv 0\pmod 3. We relate this sequence $\{b_n\}$ to the coordinates of points on the elliptic curve $E:y^2+y=x^3-3x+4$. We use Galois representations attached to $E$ to prove that the density of primes dividing a term in this sequence is equal to $\frac{179}{336}$. Furthermore… Expand

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