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Abstracts
Primitive divisors on twists of the Fermat cubic

Graham Everest, Patrick Ingram, Valéry Mahé, Shaun Stevens
Preprint (December 2007). dvi pdf or arXiv:0712.2696

Abstract. An elliptic divisibility sequence, generated by a point in the image of a rational isogeny, is shown to possess a uniformly bounded number of prime terms. This result applies over the rational numbers, assuming Lang's conjecture, and over the rational function field, unconditionally. In the latter case, a uniform bound is obtained on the index of a prime term. Sharpened versions of these techniques are shown to lead to explicit results where all the irreducible terms can be computed.

 
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