Primitive Divisors of Certain Elliptic Divisibility Sequences

Paul Voutier, Minoru Yabuta

Published 2010-09-04, updated 2011-12-03Version 3

Let $P$ be a non-torsion point on the elliptic curve $E_{a}: y^{2}=x^{3}+ax$. We show that if $a$ is fourth-power-free and either $n>2$ is even or $n>1$ is odd with $x(P)<0$ or $x(P)$ a perfect square, then the $n$-th element of the elliptic divisibility sequence generated by $P$ always has a primitive divisor.