A search for Fibonacci-Wieferich and Wolstenholme primes
Abstract
A prime p is called a Fibonacci-Wieferich prime if F_{p-({pover5})}equiv 0pmod{p^2} , where F_n is the n th Fibonacci number. We report that there exist no such primes p<2times10^{14} . A prime p is called a Wolstenholme prime if {2p-1\choose p-1}equiv 1pmod {p^4} . To date the only known Wolstenholme primes are 16843 and 2124679. We report that there exist no new Wolstenholme primes p<10^9 . Wolstenholme, in 1862, proved that {2p-1\choose p-1}equiv 1pmod {p^3} for all primes pge 5 . It is estimated by a heuristic argument that the ``probability'' that p is Fibonacci-Wieferich (independently: that p is Wolstenholme) is about 1/p . We provide some statistical data relevant to occurrences of small values of the Fibonacci-Wieferich quotient F_{p-({pover5})}/p modulo p .
- Publication:
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Mathematics of Computation
- Pub Date:
- December 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1090/S0025-5718-07-01955-2
- Bibcode:
- 2007MaCom..76.2087M
- Keywords:
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- Fibonacci number;
- Wieferich prime;
- Wall-Sun-Sun prime;
- Wolstenholme prime.