We study some arithmetic properties of the Ramanujan function τ(n), such as the largest prime divisorP (τ(n)) and the number of distinct prime divisors ω (τ (n)) of τ(n) for various sequences ofn. In particular, we show thatP(τ(n)) ≥ (logn)^33/31+o(1) for infinitely many n, and$$P(\tau )(p)\tau (p^2 )\tau (p^3 )) > (1 + o(1))\frac{{\log \log p\log \log \log p}}{{\log \log \log \log p}}$$ for every primep with τ(ρ) ≠ 0.

For an integer $k\geq 2$, let $(L_n^{(k)})_n$ be the 𝑘-Lucas sequence which starts with $0,\ldots,0,2,1$ (𝑘 terms) and each term afterwards is the sum of the 𝑘 preceding terms. In 2000, Luca (Port. Math. 57(2) 2000 243-254) proved that 11 is the largest number with only one distinct digit (the so-called repdigit) in the sequence $(L_n^{(2)})_n$. In this paper, we address a similar problem in the family of 𝑘-Lucas sequences. We also show that the 𝑘-Lucas sequences have similar properties to those of 𝑘-Fibonacci sequences and occur in formulae simultaneously with the latter.

In this paper, we find all integers $c$ having at least two representations as a difference between a Fibonacci number and a power of 2.