Lucas cofactor

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Definitions and Notes

The Lucas numbers can be defined as follows:

v₁ = 1, v₂ = 3 and v_n+1 = v_n + v_n-1 (n > 2)

It can be shown that, for odd m, v_n divides v_nm. 

In the same way that we defined a Mersenne cofactor, we define a Lucas cofactor to be a proper divisor of a Lucas number with a prime index.

Record Primes of this Type

rank prime digits who when comment 1 V(91943)/551659 / 2390519 / 9687119153094919 19187 E1 Jul 2022 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 2 V(91873)/3674921 / 193484539 / 167745030829 19175 E1 Jul 2022 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 3 V(86477)/1042112515940998434071039 18049 c77 Sep 2020 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 4 V(80761)/(23259169 · 24510801979) 16861 c77 Aug 2020 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 5 V(77417)/313991497376559420151 16159 c77 Aug 2020 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 6 V(68213)/7290202116115634431 14237 c77 Aug 2018 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 7 V(66533)/2128184670585621839884209100279 13875 c77 Dec 2018 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 8 V(52859)/1124137922466041911 11029 c8 Oct 2014 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 9 V(52201)/705\ 85804042896975505694709575919458733851279868446609 10857 c8 Mar 2015 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 10 V(52009)/39772636393178951550299332730909 10838 c8 Mar 2015 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 11 V(51941)/28080521576109021\ 14547210696868337380250300924116591143641642866931 10789 c8 Jan 2015 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 12 V(51349)/224417260052884218046541 10708 c8 Sep 2014 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 13 V(50989)/69818796119453411 10640 c8 Aug 2014 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 14 V(49391)/298414424560419239 10305 c8 Jun 2013 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 15 V(45953)/4561241750239 9591 c56 Mar 2012 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 16 V(43987)/175949 9188 c8 May 2014 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 17 V(39769)/18139109172816581 8295 c8 Nov 2013 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 18 V(39607)/158429 8273 c46 Dec 2011 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 19 V(37357)/20210113386303842894568629 7782 c8 Sep 2013 Lucas cofactor, ECPP 20 V(35107)/525110138418084707309 7317 c8 Sep 2013 Lucas cofactor, ECPP

References

BMS1988

J. Brillhart, P. Montgomery and R. Silverman, "Tables of Fibonacci and Lucas factorizations," Math. Comp., 50 (1988) 251--260.  MR 89h:11002

DK1999

H. Dubner and W. Keller, "New Fibonacci and Lucas primes," Math. Comp., 68 (1999) 417--427.  MR 99c:11008 [A supplement gives the complete factorization of F_n and L_n for n>1000 whenever it is known.]