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The Maximal Prime Divisors of Linear Recurrences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Morgan Ward
Morgan Ward*
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology
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Let

(W): W0, W1,…, Wn,…

be a linear integral recurring sequence of order r ≥ 2; that is, a particular solution of the recurrence

(1.1) ,

where P1, P2,… , Pr ≠ 0 are integers, and the initial values W0, W1, … , Wr−1 are integers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 6 , 1954 , pp. 455 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1954

References

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