A275741 Sum of Wilson and Lerch remainders of n-th prime.

1, 3, 10, 6, 6, 17, 15, 11, 25, 38, 9, 37, 47, 39, 86, 58, 107, 50, 101, 36, 98, 45, 123, 92, 170, 57, 80, 72, 158, 194, 194, 67, 78, 133, 120, 302, 144, 158, 128, 97, 91, 303, 76, 191, 139, 178, 302, 117, 242, 179, 335, 390, 362, 197, 290, 314, 327, 227, 429

Offset: 2

Author

Felix Fröhlich, Aug 07 2016

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

a(n) = 0 if and only if prime(n) is in both A007540 and A197632, i.e., prime(n) is simultaneously a Wilson prime and a Lerch prime.

For n > 2, a(n) = 0 if and only if A027641(3*p-3) / A027642(3*p-3)-1 + 1/p == 0 (mod p^2), where p = prime(n) (cf. Dobson, 2016, theorem 2).

René Gy (see links) has shown that a number is simultaneously a Lerch prime and a Wilson prime if and only if it satisfies the congruence (p - 1)! + 1 == 0 (mod p^3). - John Blythe Dobson, Feb 23 2018

Links

• John Blythe Dobson, A Characterization of Wilson-Lerch Primes, Integers, 16 (2016), A51.
• René Gy, Generalized Lerch Primes, Integers 18 (2018), A10.
• Jonathan Sondow, Lerch Quotients, Lerch Primes, Fermat-Wilson Quotients, and the Wieferich-non-Wilson Primes 2, 3, 14771, in Proceedings of CANT 2011, arXiv:1110.3113 [math.NT], 2011-2012.

Crossrefs

Cf. A002068, A007540, A197631, A197632.

Programs

Mathematica

a[n_] := Module[{p = Prime[n]}, Mod[((p-1)!+1)/p, p] + Mod[(Sum[(k^(p-1)-1)/p, {k, 1, p-1}] - ((p-1)!+1)/p)/p, p]];
Table[a[n], {n, 2, 60}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Feb 15 2019 *)

PARI

a002068(n) = my(p=prime(n)); ((p-1)!+1)/p % p
a197631(n) = my(p=prime(n), m=p-1); sum(k=1, m, k^m, -p-m!)/p^2 % p
a(n) = a002068(n) + a197631(n)

Formula

a(n) = A002068(n) + A197631(n).