Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 24 (2021), Article 21.3.7

Nontrivial Effective Lower Bounds for the Least Common Multiple of a q-Arithmetic Progression


Bakir Farhi
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées
Faculté des Sciences Exactes
Université de Bejaia
06000 Bejaia
Algeria

Abstract:

This paper is devoted to establish nontrivial effective lower bounds for the least common multiple of consecutive terms of a sequence (un)nN whose general term has the form un = r(qn − 1)/(q − 1) + u0, where r, q and u0 are non-negative integers satisfying some specific conditions. This can be considered as a q-analog of the lower bounds already obtained by the author (in 2005) and by Hong and Feng (in 2006) for arithmetic progressions.


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Received September 21 2020; revised version received February 17 2021. Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, February 17 2021.


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