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Average liar count for degree-2 Frobenius pseudoprimes
In this paper we obtain lower and upper bounds on the average number of liars
for the Quadratic Frobenius Pseudoprime Test of Grantham, generalizing
arguments of Erd\H{o}s and Pomerance, and Monier. These bounds are provided for
both Jacobi symbol plus and minus cases, providing evidence for the existence
of several challenge pseudoprimes.Comment: 19 pages, published in Mathematics of Computation, revised version
fixes typos and made a minor correction to the proof of Lemma 18 (result
remains unchanged
Primality tests, linear recurrent sequences and the Pell equation
4We study new primality tests based on linear recurrent sequences of degree two exploiting a matrix approach. The classical Lucas test arises as a particular case and we see
how it can be easily improved. Moreover, this approach shows clearly how the Lucas
pseudoprimes are connected to the Pell equation and the Brahamagupta product. We
also introduce two new specific primality tests, which we will call generalized Lucas
test and generalized Pell test. We perform some numerical computations on the new
primality tests and we do not find any pseudoprime up to 238. Moreover, we combined
the generalized Lucas test with the Fermat test up to 264 and we did not find any
composite number that passes the test. We get the same result using the generalized
Pell test.partially_openembargoed_20220207Bazzanella, Danilo; Di Scala, Antonio; Dutto, Simone; Murru, NadirBazzanella, Danilo; Di Scala, Antonio; Dutto, Simone; Murru, Nadi
Primality tests, linear recurrent sequences and the Pell equation
We study new primality tests based on linear recurrent sequences of degree
two exploiting a matricial approach. The classical Lucas test arises as a
particular case and we see how it can be easily improved. Moreover, this
approach shows clearly how the Lucas pseudoprimes are connected to the Pell
equation and the Brahamagupta product. We also introduce a new specific
primality test, which we will call generalized Pell test. We perform some
numerical computations on the new primality tests and, for the generalized Pell
test, we do not any pseudoprime up to
On numbers dividing the th term of a linear recurrence
Here, we give upper and lower bounds on the count of positive integers dividing the th term of a nondegenerate linearly recurrent sequence with
simple roots
SOME CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SMARANDACHE FUNCTION AND THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE
This paper is aimed to provide generalizations of the Smarandache function. They
will be constructed by means of sequences more general than the sequence of the
factorials. Such sequences are monotonously convergent to zero sequences and divisibility sequences (in particular the Fibonacci sequence)
On Generalized Lucas Pseudoprimality of Level k
We investigate the Fibonacci pseudoprimes of level k, and we disprove a statement concerning the relationship between the sets of different levels, and also discuss a counterpart of this result for the Lucas pseudoprimes of level k. We then use some recent arithmetic properties of the generalized Lucas, and generalized Pell–Lucas sequences, to define some new types of pseudoprimes of levels k+ and k− and parameter a. For these novel pseudoprime sequences we investigate some basic properties and calculate numerous associated integer sequences which we have added to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.N/