An Elementary Approach to the Study of Somos Sequences

A. V. Ustinov

Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Algebraic topology, combinatorics, and mathematical physics, Tome 305 (2019), pp. 330-343.

Résumé

An elementary approach (not involving the theory of elliptic functions) is proposed to the proof of the main properties of the Somos-4 sequence.

Détail

Keywords: Somos-4 sequence, addition theorems, elliptic curves.

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