I am a complete beginner and I am studying the relation between mersenne and wieferich primes.
Wikipedia says
A prime divisor p of Mq, where q is prime, is a Wieferich prime if and only if $p^2$ divides Mq Thus, a Mersenne prime cannot also be a Wieferich prime.
why? I understand that any two mersenne primes are always coprimes, so a mersenne prime cannot divide another mersenne prime. But I have trouble making the logical leap from that statement to the above one.
Also, the proof on mersenne primes page here, I do not understand how
$1 + 2^m + 2^{2m} + ... + 2^{(λ − 1)m} ≡ −λ \mod (2^m − 1)$
I apologize if I this has been asked before. But everywhere I search, the statement is given without proof.
Thank you very much :")
Incomplete answer. This statement $$1+2^m+2^{2m}+...+2^{(\lambda-1)m} \equiv \lambda \pmod{2^m-1}$$ is easy deductible from $$1 \equiv 1 \pmod{2^m-1} $$ $$2^m\equiv 1 \pmod{2^m-1} \tag{1}$$ by raising $(1)$ at the power of $2$ $$(2^m)^2 \equiv 1^2 \pmod{2^m-1} \Rightarrow 2^{2m}\equiv 1 \pmod{2^m-1}$$ by raising $(1)$ at the power of $3$ $$(2^{m})^3 \equiv 1^3 \pmod{2^m-1} \Rightarrow 2^{3m}\equiv 1 \pmod{2^m-1}$$ $$...$$ by raising $(1)$ at the power of $\lambda -1$ $$(2^{m})^{\lambda -1} \equiv 1^{\lambda -1} \pmod{2^m-1} \Rightarrow 2^{(\lambda -1)m}\equiv 1 \pmod{2^m-1}$$ Now, we add altogether $$1+2^m+2^{2m}+...+2^{(\lambda-1)m} \equiv 1+1+1+...+1 \equiv \lambda \pmod{2^m-1}$$