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A019434 Fermat primes: primes of the form 2^(2^k) + 1, for some k >= 0.

3, 5, 17, 257, 65537

Offset: 1

It is conjectured that there are only 5 terms. Currently it has been shown that 2^(2^k) + 1 is composite for 5 <= k <= 32 (see Eric Weisstein's Fermat Primes link). - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Sep 28 2008
No Fermat prime is a Brazilian number. So Fermat primes belong to A220627. For proof see Proposition 3 page 36 in "Les nombres brésiliens" in Links. - Bernard Schott, Dec 29 2012
This sequence and A001220 are disjoint (see "Other theorems about Fermat numbers" in Wikipedia link). - Felix Fröhlich, Sep 07 2014
Numbers n > 1 such that n * 2^(n-2) divides (n-1)! + 2^(n-1). - Thomas Ordowski, Jan 15 2015
From Jaroslav Krizek, Mar 17 2016: (Start)
Primes p such that phi(p) = 2*phi(p-1); primes from A171271.
Primes p such that sigma(p-1) = 2p - 3.
Primes p such that sigma(p-1) = 2*sigma(p) - 5.
For n > 1, a(n) = primes p such that p = 4 * phi((p-1) / 2) + 1.
Subsequence of A256444 and A256439.
Conjectures:
1) primes p such that phi(p) = 2*phi(p-2).
2) primes p such that phi(p) = 2*phi(p-1) = 2*phi(p-2).
3) primes p such that p = sigma(phi(p-2)) + 2.
4) primes p such that phi(p-1) + 1 divides p + 1.
5) numbers n such that sigma(n-1) = 2*sigma(n) - 5. (End)
Odd primes p such that ratio of the form (the number of nonnegative m < p such that m^q == m (mod p))/(the number of nonnegative m < p such that -m^q == m (mod p)) is a divisor of p for all nonnegative q. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Oct 13 2020
Numbers n such that tau(n)*(number of distinct ratio (the number of nonnegative m < n such that m^q == m (mod n))/(the number of nonnegative m < n such that -m^q == m (mod n))) for nonnegative q is equal to 4. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Oct 22 2020
The numbers of primitive roots for the five known terms are 1, 2, 8, 128, 32768. - Gary W. Adamson, Jan 13 2022
Prime numbers such that every residue is either a primitive root or a quadratic residue. - Keith Backman, Jul 11 2022
If there are only 5 Fermat primes, then there are only 31 odd order groups which have a 2-group automorphism group. See the Miles Englezou link for a proof. - Miles Englezou, Mar 10 2025

John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. See pp. 137-141, 197.
G. Everest, A. van der Poorten, I. Shparlinski and T. Ward, Recurrence Sequences, Amer. Math. Soc., 2003; see esp. p. 255.
C. F. Gauss, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Yale, 1965; see Table 1, p. 458.
Jan Gullberg, Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers, W. W. Norton & Co., NY & London, 1997, §3.2 Prime Numbers, pp. 78-79.
Richard K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, A3.
Hardy and Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, bottom of page 18 in the sixth edition, gives an heuristic argument that this sequence is finite.
Paulo Ribenboim, The Little Book of Bigger Primes, Springer-Verlag NY 2004. See pp. 7, 70.
James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pages 136-137.

Anas AbuDaqa, Amjad Abu-Hassan, and Muhammad Imam, Taxonomy and Practical Evaluation of Primality Testing Algorithms, arXiv:2006.08444 [cs.CR], 2020.
Cyril Banderier, Pepin's Criterion For Fermat Numbers (in French)
Kent D. Boklan and John H. Conway, Expect at most one billionth of a new Fermat Prime!, arXiv:1605.01371 [math.NT], 2016.
P. Bruillard, S.-H. Ng, E. Rowell, and Z. Wang, On modular categories, arXiv:1310.7050 [math.QA], 2013-2015.
C. K. Caldwell, The Prime Glossary, Fermat number
Miles Englezou, Proof that 5 Fermat primes implies 31 odd order groups with 2-group automorphism groups
R. K. Guy, The strong law of small numbers. Amer. Math. Monthly 95 (1988), no. 8, 697-712. [Annotated scanned copy]
Ernest G. Hibbs, Component Interactions of the Prime Numbers, Ph. D. Thesis, Capitol Technology Univ. (2022), see p. 33.
Wilfrid Keller, Prime factors k.2^n + 1 of Fermat numbers F_m
P. Mathonet, M. Rigo, M. Stipulanti and N. Zénaïdi, On digital sequences associated with Pascal's triangle, arXiv:2201.06636 [math.NT], 2022.
Romeo Mestrovic, Euclid's theorem on the infinitude of primes: a historical survey of its proofs (300 BC--2012) and another new proof, arXiv:1202.3670 [math.HO], 2012. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Jun 13 2012
Romeo Meštrović, Goldbach-type conjectures arising from some arithmetic progressions, University of Montenegro, 2018.
Romeo Meštrović, Goldbach's like conjectures arising from arithmetic progressions whose first two terms are primes, arXiv:1901.07882 [math.NT], 2019.
Salah Eddine Rihane, Chèfiath Awero Adegbindin, and Alain Togbé, Fermat Padovan And Perrin Numbers, J. Int. Seq., Vol. 23 (2020), Article 20.6.2.
Mario Raso, Integer Sequences in Cryptography: A New Generalized Family and its Application, Ph. D. Thesis, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy 2025). See p. 65.
Maxie D. Schmidt, New Congruences and Finite Difference Equations for Generalized Factorial Functions, arXiv:1701.04741 [math.CO], 2017.
Bernard Schott, Les nombres brésiliens, Quadrature, no. 76, avril-juin 2010, pages 30-38. Local copy, included here with permission from the editors of Quadrature.
Yaryna Stelmakh, Homeomorphisms of the space of non-zero integers with the Kirch topology, arXiv:2101.04676 [math.GN], 2020.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Fermat Number
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Fermat Prime
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pepin's Test
Wikipedia, Fermat number
Haifeng Xu, The largest cycles consist by the quadratic residues and Fermat primes, arXiv:1601.06509 [math.NT], 2016.

Cf. A000215, A001146, A159611, A220627, A220570.
Subsequence of A147545 and of A334101. Cf. also A333788, A334092.
Cf. A045544.

[2^(2^n)+1 : n in [0..4] | IsPrime(2^(2^n)+1)]; // Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Jun 09 2011

Select[Table[2^(2^n) + 1, {n, 0, 4}], PrimeQ] (* Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Apr 29 2008 *)

for(i=0,10, isprime(2^2^i+1) && print1(2^2^i+1,", ")) \\ M. F. Hasler, Nov 21 2009

[2^(2^n)+1 for n in (0..4) if is_prime(2^(2^n)+1)] # G. C. Greubel, Mar 07 2019

a(n+1) = A180024(A049084(a(n))). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 08 2010

a(n) = 1 + A001146(n-1), if 1 <= n <= 5. - Omar E. Pol, Jun 08 2018

A278919 Numbers n such that phi(n-2) divides sigma(n-1)+1.

Original entry on oeis.org

3, 4, 5, 17, 26, 257, 65537, 4294967297

Offset: 1

Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Nov 30 2016

Numbers n such that A000010(n-2) divides A000203(n-1)+1.
Supersequence of Fermat primes (A019434).
Conjecture: this sequence is finite.
Any further terms are > 10^12. - Lucas A. Brown, Sep 22 2024

			3 is in this sequence because phi(1) divides sigma(2)+1; 1 divides 4.
4 is in this sequence because phi(2) divides sigma(3)+1; 1 divides 5.
5 is in this sequence because phi(3) divides sigma(4)+1; 2 divides 8.
17 is in this sequence because phi(15) divides sigma(16)+1; 8 divides 32.

Lucas A. Brown, Python program.

Cf. A000010, A000203, A019434, A256439.

[3] cat [n: n in [4..10000000] | Denominator((SumOfDivisors(n-1)+1)/EulerPhi(n-2)) eq 1];

Select[Range[3,66000],Divisible[DivisorSigma[1,(#-1)]+1,EulerPhi[#-2]]&] (* Ivan N. Ianakiev, Dec 05 2016 *)

a(8) from Ivan N. Ianakiev, Dec 05 2016

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