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Conjecture: a(n)>0 for all n>7.

This has been verified for n up to 3*10^8.

Zhi-Wei Sun also made the following general conjecture: For each odd integer m not congruent to 5 modulo 6, any sufficiently large integer n can be written as p+q with p and 2*p*q+m both prime.

For example, when m = 3, -3, 7, 9, -9, -11, 13, 15, it suffices to require that n is greater than 1, 29, 16, 224, 29, 5, 10, 52 respectively.

Sun also guessed that any integer n>4190 can be written as p+q with p, 2*p*q+1, 2*p*q+7 all prime, and any even number n>1558 can be written as p+q with p, q, 2*p*q+3 all prime. He has some other similar observations.

Conjecture: a(n) > 0 for all n > 1.

This has been verified for n up to 10^8. It implies that there are infinitely many primes of the form x^2 + x + 1.

The author also guesses that any integer n > 1157 can be written as x + y with x and y positive integers, and (x*y)^2 + x*y + 1 and (x*y)^2 + x*y - 1 twin primes.

Zhi-Wei Sun has made the following general conjecture: For each prime p, any sufficiently large integer n can be written as x + y, where x and y are positive integers with ((x*y)^p - 1)/(x*y - 1) prime. (For p = 5, 7 it suffices to require n > 28 and n > 46 respectively.)

Compare this with Sun's another conjecture related to A219791.

See comments in A091182, A219782 and A219791.