A219923 Number of ways to write n=x+y (x>0, y>0) with x-1, x+1 and 2*x*y+1 all prime.

0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 0, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 0, 3, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 5, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 3, 5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 0, 3, 5, 4, 1, 3, 6, 2, 6, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 2, 3, 3, 4, 1, 2, 0, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 6

Offset: 1

Author

Zhi-Wei Sun, Dec 01 2012

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Conjecture: a(n)>0 for all n>623.

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

Zhi-Wei Sun made the following general conjecture: For each nonnegative integer m, any sufficiently large integer n can be written as x+y (x>0, y>0) with x-m, x+m and 2*x*y+1 all prime.

For example, when m = 2, 3, 4, 5 it suffices to require that n is greater than 28, 151, 357, 199 respectively.

Sun also conjectured that for each m=0,1,2,... any sufficiently large integer n with m or n odd can be written as x+y (x>0, y>0) with x-m, x+m and x*y-1 all prime.

For example, in the case m=1 it suffices to require that n is greater than 4 and not among 40, 125, 155, 180, 470, 1275, 2185, 3875; when m=2 it suffices to require that n is odd, greater than 7, and different from 13.

Examples

			a(11)=1 since 11=6+5 with 6-1, 6+1 and 2*6*5+1=61 all prime.
		

Links

• Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
• Zhi-Wei Sun, Conjectures involving primes and quadratic forms, arXiv:1211.1588.

Crossrefs

Cf. A219864, A219842.

Programs

Mathematica

a[n_]:=a[n]=Sum[If[PrimeQ[Prime[k]+2]==True&&PrimeQ[2(Prime[k]+1)(n-Prime[k]-1)+1]==True,1,0],{k,1,PrimePi[n-1]}]
Do[Print[n," ",a[n]],{n,1,10000}]