On primitive prime divisors of the orders of Suzuki-Ree groups (corrected version)

Maria Grechkoseeva

There is a well-known factorization of the number $2^{2m}+1$, with $m$ odd, related to the orders of tori of simple Suzuki groups: $2^{2m}+1$ is a product of $a=2^m+2^{(m+1)/2}+1$…