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Somos-4 and Somos-5 are arithmetic divisibility sequences
Published 1 May 2015 in math.NT | (1505.00194v1)
Abstract: We provide an elementary proof to a conjecture by Robinson that multiples of (powers of) primes in the Somos-4 sequence are equally spaced. We also show, almost as a corollary, for the generalised Somos-4 sequence defined by $\tau_{n+2}\tau_{n-2}=\alpha\tau_{n+1}\tau_{n-1}+\beta\tau_n2$ and initial values $\tau_1=\tau_2=\tau_3=\tau_4=1$, that the polynomial $\tau_n(\alpha,\beta)$ is a divisor of $\tau_{n+k(2n-5)}(\alpha,\beta)$ for all $n,k\in\mathbb Z$ and establish a similar result for the generalized Somos-5 sequence.
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