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A001177 Fibonacci entry points: a(n) = least k >= 1 such that n divides Fibonacci number F_k (=A000045(k)).

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Author

N. J. A. Sloane

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Comments

In the formula, the relation a(p^e) = p^(e-1)*a(p) is called Wall's conjecture, which has been verified for primes up to 10^14. See A060305. Primes for which this relation fails are called Wall-Sun-Sun primes. - T. D. Noe, Mar 03 2009
All solutions to F_m == 0 (mod n) are given by m == 0 (mod a(n)). For a proof see, e.g., Vajda, p. 73. [Old comment changed by Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 19 2015]
If p is a prime of the form 10n +- 1 then a(p) is a divisor of p-1. If q is a prime of the form 10n +- 3 then a(q) is a divisor of q+1. - Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 07 2007
Definition 1 in Riasat (2011) calls this k(n), or sometimes just k. Corollary 1 in the same paper, "every positive integer divides infinitely many Fibonacci numbers," demonstrates that this sequence is infinite. - Alonso del Arte, Jul 27 2013
If p is a prime then a(p) <= p+1. This is because if p is a prime then exactly one of the following Fibonacci numbers is a multiple of p: F(p-1), F(p) or F(p+1). - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Jul 23 2015
From Renault 1996:
1. a(lcm(n,m)) = lcm(a(n), a(m)).
2. if n|m then a(n)|a(m).
3. if m has prime factorization m=p1^e1 * p2^e2 * ... * pn^en then a(m) = lcm(a(p1^e1), a(p2^e2), ..., a(pn^en)). - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Jul 23 2015
a(n)=n if and only if n=5^k or n=12*5^k for some k >= 0 (see Marques 2012). - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Aug 08 2015
Every positive integer (except 2) eventually appears in this sequence. This is because every Fibonacci number bigger than 1 (except Fibonacci(6)=8 and Fibonacci(12)=144) has at least one prime factor that is not a factor of any earlier Fibonacci number (see Knott reference). Let f(n) be such a prime factor for Fibonacci(n); then a(f(n))=n. - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Aug 08 2015
We can reconstruct the Fibonacci numbers from this sequence using the formula Fibonacci(n+2) = 1 + Sum_{i: a(i) <= n} phi(i)*floor(n/a(i)), where phi(n) is Euler's totient function A000010 (see the Stroinski link). For example F(6) = 1 + phi(1)*floor(4/a(1)) + phi(2)*floor(4/a(2)) + phi(3)*floor(4/a(4)) = 1 + 1*4 + 1*1 + 2*1 = 8. - Peter Bala, Sep 10 2015
Conjecture: Sum_{d|n} phi(d)*a(d) = A232656(n). - Logan J. Kleinwaks, Oct 28 2017
a(F_m) = m for all m > 1. Indeed, let (b(j)) be defined by b(1)=b(2)=1, and b(j+2) = (b(j) + b(j+1)) mod n. Then a(n) equals the index of the first occurrence of 0 in (b(j)). Example: if n=4 then b = A079343 = 1,1,2,3,1,0,1,1,..., so a(4)=6. If n is a Fibonacci number n=F_m, then obviously a(n)=m. Note that this gives a simple proof of the fact that all integers larger than 2 occur in (a(n)). - Michel Dekking, Nov 10 2017

Examples

			a(4) = 6 because the smallest Fibonacci number that 4 divides is F(6) = 8.
a(5) = 5 because the smallest Fibonacci number that 5 divides is F(5) = 5.
a(6) = 12 because the smallest Fibonacci number that 6 divides is F(12) = 144.
From _Wolfdieter Lang_, Jan 19 2015: (Start)
a(2) = 3, hence 2 | F(m) iff m = 2*k, for k >= 0;
a(3) = 4, hence 3 | F(m) iff m = 4*k, for k >= 0;
etc. See a comment above with the Vajda reference.
(End)

References

  • A. Brousseau, Fibonacci and Related Number Theoretic Tables. Fibonacci Association, San Jose, CA, 1972, p. 25.
  • B. H. Hannon and W. L. Morris, Tables of Arithmetical Functions Related to the Fibonacci Numbers. Report ORNL-4261, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, June 1968.
  • Alfred S. Posamentier & Ingmar Lehmann, The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers, Afterword by Herbert A. Hauptman, Nobel Laureate, 2. 'The Minor Modulus m(n)', Prometheus Books, NY, 2007, page 329-342.
  • N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
  • N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
  • S. Vajda, Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and the Golden Section, Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, 1989.
  • N. N. Vorob'ev, Fibonacci numbers, Blaisdell, NY, 1961.

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Crossrefs

Cf. A000045, A001175, A001176, A060383, A001602. First occurrence of k is given in A131401. A233281 gives such k that a(k) is a prime.
From Antti Karttunen, Dec 21 2013: (Start)
Various derived sequences:
A047930(n) = A000045(a(n)).
A037943(n) = A000045(a(n))/n.
A217036(n) = A000045(a(n)-1) mod n.
A132632(n) = a(n^2).
A132633(n) = a(n^3).
A214528(n) = a(n!).
A215011(n) = a(A000217(n)).
A215453(n) = a(n^n).
Analogous sequence for the tribonacci numbers: A046737, for Lucas numbers: A223486, for Pell numbers: A214028.
Cf. also A000057, A106535, A120255, A120256, A175026, A213648, A214031, A214781, A214783, A230359, A233283, A233285, A233287. (End)

Programs

  • Haskell
    a001177 n = head [k | k <- [1..], a000045 k `mod` n == 0]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 15 2014
  • Maple
    A001177 := proc(n)
        for k from 1 do
                if combinat[fibonacci](k) mod n = 0 then
                        return k;
                end if;
        end do:
end proc: # R. J. Mathar, Jul 09 2012
N:= 1000: # to get a(1) to a(N)
L:= ilcm($1..N):
count:= 0:
for n from 1 while count < N do
  fn:= igcd(L,combinat:-fibonacci(n));
  divs:= select(`<=`,numtheory:-divisors(fn),N);
  for d in divs do if not assigned(A[d]) then count:= count+1; A[d]:= n fi od:
od:
seq(A[n],n=1..N); # Robert Israel, Oct 14 2015
  • Mathematica
    fibEntry[n_] := Block[{k = 1}, While[ Mod[ Fibonacci@k, n] != 0, k++ ]; k]; Array[fibEntry, 74] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 04 2007 *)
  • PARI
    a(n)=if(n<0,0,s=1;while(fibonacci(s)%n>0,s++);s) \\ Benoit Cloitre, Feb 10 2007
  • PARI
    ap(p)=my(k=p+[0, -1, 1, 1, -1][p%5+1], f=factor(k)); for(i=1, #f[, 1], for(j=1, f[i, 2], if((Mod([1, 1; 1, 0], p)^(k/f[i, 1]))[1, 2], break); k/=f[i, 1])); k
a(n)=if(n==1,return(1)); my(f=factor(n), v); v=vector(#f~, i, if(f[i,1]>1e14,ap(f[i,1]^f[i,2]), ap(f[i,1])*f[i,1]^(f[i,2]-1))); if(f[1,1]==2&&f[1,2]>1, v[1]=3<Charles R Greathouse IV, May 08 2017
  • Scheme
    (define (A001177 n) (let loop ((k 1)) (cond ((zero? (modulo (A000045 k) n)) k) (else (loop (+ k 1)))))) ;; Antti Karttunen, Dec 21 2013

Formula

A001175(n) = A001176(n) * a(n) for n >= 1.
a(n) = n if and only if n is of form 5^k or 12*5^k (proved in Marques paper), a(n) = n - 1 if and only if n is in A106535, a(n) = n + 1 if and only if n is in A000057, a(n) = n + 5 if and only if n is in 5*A000057, ... - Benoit Cloitre, Feb 10 2007
a(1) = 1, a(2) = 3, a(4) = 6 and for e > 2, a(2^e) = 3*2^(e-2); a(5^e) = 5^e; and if p is an odd prime not 5, then a(p^e) = p^max(0, e-s)*a(p) where s = valuation(A000045(a(p)), p) (Wall's conjecture states that s = 1 for all p). If (m, n) = 1 then a(m*n) = lcm(a(m), a(n)). See Posamentier & Lahmann. - Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 07 2007; corrected by Max Alekseyev, Oct 19 2007, Jun 24 2011
Apparently a(n) = A213648(n) + 1 for n >= 2. - Art DuPre, Jul 01 2012
a(n) < n^2. [Vorob'ev]. - Zak Seidov, Jan 07 2016
a(n) < n^2 - 3n + 6. - Jinyuan Wang, Oct 13 2018
a(n) <= 2n [Salle]. - Jon Maiga, Apr 25 2019

Extensions

Definition corrected by Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 19 2015

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