A purely number theoretic attempt to prove Picard's theorems
Let denote the th cyclotomic polynomial in . Recently, Guo, Schlosser and Zudilin proved that for any integer with , where . In this note, we give a generalization of the above -congruence to the modulus case. Meanwhile, we give a corresponding -congruence modulo for . Our proof is based on the ‘creative microscoping’ method, recently developed by Guo and Zudilin, and a summation formula.
Let K be an algebraic number field with non-trivial class group G and be its ring of integers. For k ∈ ℕ and some real x ≥ 1, let denote the number of non-zero principal ideals with norm bounded by x such that a has at most k distinct factorizations into irreducible elements. It is well known that behaves for x → ∞ asymptotically like . We prove, among other results, that for all integers n₁,n₂ with 1 < n₁|n₂.
Let be an elliptic curve defined over a number field, and let be a point of infinite order. It is natural to ask how many integers fail to occur as the order of modulo a prime of . For , a quadratic twist of , and as above, we show that there is at most one such .
Let be a prime number. In this paper we prove that the addition in -ary without carry admits a recursive definition like in the already known cases and .
Such problems as the search for Wieferich primes or Wall-Sun-Sun primes are intensively studied and often discused at present. This paper is devoted to a similar problem related to the Tribonacci numbers.