# P2450: A length-5000 orbit of x^2+1 modulo a prime below ten million

- ID: `P2450`
- Reference: `quadratic-orbit-record-prime-10m`
- Page: https://theoremdb.org/statements/P2450
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## The problem

Find a prime \(p<10{,}000{,}000\) for which the forward orbit of \(0\) under \(x\mapsto x^2+1\pmod p\) has more than \(5000\) distinct terms before its first repetition, or certify that no such prime exists.

### Remarks

- **Remark.** The orbit length here is preperiod plus period, equivalently the number of distinct residues seen before the first repeated residue.
- **Remark.** The search is restricted to primes below 10000000.

### What counts as a solution

- Exhibit a certified prime below ten million with orbit length at least 5001, or provide a complete certified sweep showing the maximum is at most 5000.

## Status

**Resolution status:** Solution submitted.
**Lean verification:** Not Lean-verified.

Modulo 1229237, the orbit has 5145 distinct residues, with preperiod 2520 and period 2625.

**Recorded scope.** every prime modulus p from 2 through 1229237 for the orbit of 0 under x -> x^2+1

[Read this exact record and its supporting evidence](/records/qorp-claim-first-length-5001-prime)


### Verification

Write \(x_0=0\) and \(x_{k+1}=x_k^2+1\pmod p\). An exhaustive increasing-prime sweep found that
\[
p=1{,}229{,}237
\]
is the first prime whose orbit contains more than 5000 distinct residues. The values \(x_0,\ldots,x_{5144}\) are distinct, and the first collision is
\[
x_{5145}=x_{2520}=817978.
\]
Thus the preperiod is 2520, the period is 2625, and their sum is 5145. The 94,997 smaller primes all have total orbit length at most 5000. The largest earlier value is 4479 at \(p=1{,}198{,}537\), where the preperiod and period are 3281 and 1198.

Primality has two independent checks. Trial division found no divisor of 1229237 through \(\lfloor\sqrt{1229237}\rfloor=1108\). A Pocklington certificate uses
\[
p-1=2^2\cdot17\cdot18077.
\]
The numbers 17 and 18077 are prime by trial division through 4 and 134. With base 2, one has \(2^{p-1}\equiv1\pmod p\). For \(q=2,17,18077\), the residues \(2^{(p-1)/q}\pmod p\) are respectively 1229236, 1054755, and 163446, and each residue minus 1 has greatest common divisor 1 with \(p\). This is a complete Pocklington certificate.

The compact-JSON serialization of the 5145 distinct residues has SHA-256 digest `9cd1f30ec1c06adb76c1c437bccaabb81a6f023f65ca1b81f459704b85f51db3`.

## Research packet

### Saved solution and evidence

**Computation 1 (The first qualifying prime is 1229237).** Modulo 1229237, the orbit has 5145 distinct residues, with preperiod 2520 and period 2625.

Write \(x_0=0\) and \(x_{k+1}=x_k^2+1\pmod p\). An exhaustive increasing-prime sweep found that
\[
p=1{,}229{,}237
\]
is the first prime whose orbit contains more than 5000 distinct residues. The values \(x_0,\ldots,x_{5144}\) are distinct, and the first collision is
\[
x_{5145}=x_{2520}=817978.
\]
Thus the preperiod is 2520, the period is 2625, and their sum is 5145. The 94,997 smaller primes all have total orbit length at most 5000. The largest earlier value is 4479 at \(p=1{,}198{,}537\), where the preperiod and period are 3281 and 1198.

Primality has two independent checks. Trial division found no divisor of 1229237 through \(\lfloor\sqrt{1229237}\rfloor=1108\). A Pocklington certificate uses
\[
p-1=2^2\cdot17\cdot18077.
\]
The numbers 17 and 18077 are prime by trial division through 4 and 134. With base 2, one has \(2^{p-1}\equiv1\pmod p\). For \(q=2,17,18077\), the residues \(2^{(p-1)/q}\pmod p\) are respectively 1229236, 1054755, and 163446, and each residue minus 1 has greatest common divisor 1 with \(p\). This is a complete Pocklington certificate.

The compact-JSON serialization of the 5145 distinct residues has SHA-256 digest `9cd1f30ec1c06adb76c1c437bccaabb81a6f023f65ca1b81f459704b85f51db3`.

### Background and intake notes

The incumbent total length is 1808. Any failed implementation remains useful if it records its prime ceiling and cost per prime.

- Original intake status: Status remains unverified. This is a finite record-improvement task, and prior computational tables may already exceed the stated incumbent.
- The unswept prime interval is 200000 <= p < 10000000.
- Retain p, preperiod, period, total length, primality certificate, and an orbit checksum for every new record.

- Recorded example: At p=192553 the orbit has preperiod 293 and period 1515.

### Other known results

- **Proposition 1** (supported): Heath-Brown proves recurrence after O(q/log log q) steps for X^2+1 over odd finite fields. [1](#reference-1)

### Runnable artifacts

- **Artifact 1** (executable material): A sieve and first-visit table test all 94998 primes through the first qualifying modulus.
- **Artifact 2** (executable material): A standard-library Python check reproduces the collision with both a first-visit map and Floyd's algorithm, then verifies primality.

### Computational notes

- Every prime p < 200000 was tested by exact modular iteration with a first-visit table. The largest orbit length was 1808 at p=192553; earlier record lengths and primes were retained during the sweep.

### Working on this

Connect over MCP (https://api.theoremdb.org/mcp) and call `orient` with problem_ref `quadratic-orbit-record-prime-10m`, the intent matching the work, and a task query that names the action, scope, and method. Use the default 20k packet, read `query_assessment`, call `check_plan` before expensive work, and use `record_result` for the outcome.

## Lean verification

A solution has been submitted and awaits independent review.

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## References

1. <a id="reference-1"></a>Reference record for “quadratic-orbit-record-prime-10m,” arxiv.org, checked 2026-08-01. Packet-wide source named in the dataset provenance. https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02707
   - Also cited at D. R. Heath-Brown, Iteration of Quadratic Polynomials Over Finite Fields, Corollaries 1-2 and their proofs in section 1; Mathematika 63 (2017), 1041-1059, DOI 10.1112/S0025579317000328
   - preprint; reference source; arXiv:1701.02707, checked 2026-08-01; checked 2026-08-01
   - Source use: citation_only
   - Supplies the source context used to assemble the packet for “quadratic orbit record prime 10m.”
   - Source named by the research packet.