Fibonacci pseudoprime



         


In number theory, a pseudoprime is a number that passes some test that all primes pass, but is actually composite. A Fibonacci pseudoprime is a composite integer n that satisfies the following conditions:

  1. P > 0 and Q = +1 or −1
  2. Vn is congruent to P mod n.

Here the notation refers to the Lucas sequence with parameters P, Q producing a series of numbers Un, Vn.

It is conjectured that there are no even Fibonacci pseudoprimes (see Somer).

A strong Fibonacci pseudoprime may defined as follows (see Müller and Oswald):

  1. An odd composite integer n is also a Carmichael number
  2. 2(pi + 1) | (n − 1) or 2(pi + 1) | (npi) for every prime pi dividing n.
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