# Wall-Sun-Sun primes and Fibonacci divisibility

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 Posted by: adudzik on: June 14th, 2008

\begin{conjecture} For any prime $p$, there exists a Fibonacci number divisible by $p$ exactly once. \end{conjecture}

Equivalently:

\begin{conjecture} For any prime $p>5$, $p^2$ does not divide $F_{p-\left(\frac p5\right)}$ where $\left(\frac mn\right)$ is the Legendre symbol. \end{conjecture}

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Let $p$ be an odd prime, and let $\nu_p(n)$ denote the $p$-adic valuation of $n$. Let $F_{k(p)}$ be the smallest Fibonacci number that is divisible by $p$ (which must exist by a simple counting argument). A well-known result says that $\nu_p(F_n)=0$ unless $k(p)$ divides $n$, and $\nu_p(F_{k(p)m}) = \nu_p(F_{k(p)}) + \nu_p(m)$. This conjecture asserts that $\nu_p(F_{k(p)})=1$ for all $p$. This has been verified up to at least $p<10^{14}$. [EJ]

This conjecture is equivalent to non-existence of \href[Wall-Sun-Sun primes]{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall-Sun-Sun_prime}.

## Bibliography

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[EJ] Andreas-Stephan Elsenhansand and Jörg Jahnel, \href[The Fibonacci sequence modulo p^2]{http://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/tschinkel/gauss/Fibon.pdf}

[R] Marc Renault, \href[Properties of the Fibonacci Sequence Under Various Moduli]{http://www.math.temple.edu/~renault/fibonacci/thesis.html}

*[W] D. D. Wall, Fibonacci Series Modulo m, American Mathematical Monthly, 67 (1960), pp. 525-532.

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