Primitive divisors on twists of the Fermat cubic
Graham Everest, Patrick Ingram, Valéry Mahé, Shaun Stevens
Preprint (December 2007).
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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.