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An elementary proof of a congruence by Skula and Granville

Romeo Meštrović (2012)

Archivum Mathematicum

Let p 5 be a prime, and let q p ( 2 ) : = ( 2 p - 1 - 1 ) / p be the Fermat quotient of p to base 2 . The following curious congruence was conjectured by L. Skula and proved by A. Granville q p ( 2 ) 2 - k = 1 p - 1 2 k k 2 ( mod p ) . In this note we establish the above congruence by entirely elementary number theory arguments.

An exponential Diophantine equation related to the sum of powers of two consecutive k-generalized Fibonacci numbers

Carlos Alexis Gómez Ruiz, Florian Luca (2014)

Colloquium Mathematicae

A generalization of the well-known Fibonacci sequence F n 0 given by F₀ = 0, F₁ = 1 and F n + 2 = F n + 1 + F for all n ≥ 0 is the k-generalized Fibonacci sequence F ( k ) n - ( k - 2 ) whose first k terms are 0,..., 0, 1 and each term afterwards is the sum of the preceding k terms. For the Fibonacci sequence the formula F ² + F ² n + 1 ² = F 2 n + 1 holds for all n ≥ 0. In this paper, we show that there is no integer x ≥ 2 such that the sum of the xth powers of two consecutive k-generalized Fibonacci numbers is again a k-generalized Fibonacci number. This generalizes...

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