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John Friedlander and Henryk Iwaniec proved that there are infinitely many such primes.

A256852(A049084(a(n))) > 0. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 11 2015

Primes in A111925. - Robert Israel, Oct 02 2015

Its intersection with A185086 is A262340, by the uniqueness part of Fermat's two-squares theorem. - Jonathan Sondow, Oct 05 2015

Cunningham calls these semi-quartan primes. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Aug 21 2017

Primes of the form (x^2 + y^2)/2, where x > y > 0, such that (x-y)/2 or (x+y)/2 is square. - Thomas Ordowski, Dec 04 2017

Named after the Canadian mathematician John Benjamin Friedlander (b. 1941) and the Polish-American mathematician Henryk Iwaniec (b. 1947). - Amiram Eldar, Jun 19 2021

a(n) is the number of 4 X 4 pandiagonal magic squares with sum 2n. - Sharon Sela (sharonsela(AT)hotmail.com), May 10 2002

Figurate numbers based on the 4-dimensional regular convex polytope called the 16-cell, hexadecachoron, 4-cross polytope or 4-hyperoctahedron with Schlaefli symbol {3,3,4}. a(n)=(n^2*(n^2+2))/3 if the offset were 1. - Michael J. Welch (mjw1(AT)ntlworld.com), Apr 01 2004, R. J. Mathar, Jul 18 2009

If X is an n-set and Y_i (i=1,2,3) mutually disjoint 2-subsets of X then a(n-6) is equal to the number of 7-subsets of X intersecting each Y_i (i=1,2,3). - Milan Janjic, Aug 26 2007

Equals binomial transform of [1, 7, 18, 20, 8, 0, 0, 0, ...], where (1, 7, 18, 20, 8) = row 4 of the Chebyshev triangle A081277. Also = row 4 of the array in A142978. - Gary W. Adamson, Jul 19 2008

Conjecture: a(n) > 0 for all n >= 0. Also, a(n) = 1 only for the following 41 values of n: 0, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 62, 71, 78, 87, 136, 216, 405, 437, 448, 477, 535, 583, 591, 623, 671, 696, 885, 950, 1046, 1135, 1206, 1208, 1248, 1317, 2288, 2383, 2543, 3167, 3717, 3974, 6847, 7918, 8328, 9096, 21935.

We have verified that a(n) > 0 for all n = 0..10^7.

Conjecture verified up to 10^11. - Mauro Fiorentini, Jul 07 2023

We also conjecture that if f(w,x,y,z) is one of the 8 polynomials 2w^2+x^3+4y^3+z^4, w^2+x^3+2y^3+c*z^3 (c = 3,4,5,6) and w^2+x^3+2y^3+d*z^4 (d = 1,3,6) then each n = 0,1,2,... can be written as f(w,x,y,z) with w,x,y,z nonnegative integers. - Zhi-Wei Sun, Dec 30 2017

Conjecture verified up to 10^11 for all 8 polynomials. - Mauro Fiorentini, Jul 07 2023

Theorem: a(n) > 0 for all n = 0,1,2,.... In other words, any nonnegative integer can be written as the sum of a fourth power and three squares.

This is stronger than Lagrange's four-square theorem, and it can be proved by induction on n. It is easy to check that a(n) > 0 for all n = 0..16. Now let n be an integer greater than 16, and assume that a(m) > 0 for all m = 0..n-1. If 16|n, then n/16 can be written as w^4+x^2+y^2+z^2 with w,x,y,z integers, and hence n = (2w)^4+(4x)^2+(4y)^2+(4z)^2. If n == 8 (mod 16), then n is not of the form 4^k*(8q+7) and hence n = 0^4+x^2+y^2+z^2 for some integers x,y,z. If n == 4 (mod 8), then n-1^4 can be written as the sum of three squares. If n == 2 (mod 4), then n-0^4 is a sum of three squares. If n == 7 (mod 8), then n-1^4 can be written as the sum of three squares. If n is odd but not congruent to 7 modulo 8, then n-0^4 can be expressed as the sum of three squares.

We have a(n) = 1 if n has the form 16^k*q with k a nonnegative integer and q among 7, 8, 15, 23, 31, 47, 71, 79. In fact, if n = 16*m with m > 0, and 16*m = w^4+x^2+y^2+z^2 with w,x,y,z integers, then w,x,y,z are all even and hence m = (w/2)^4+(x/2)^2+(y/2)^2+(z/2)^2. Therefore a(16*m) = a(m) for all m > 0. It is easy to check that a(q) = 1 for every q = 7, 8, 15, 23, 31, 47, 71, 79.

For (a,b,c) = (1,1,2),(1,1,3),(1,1,4),(1,1,6),(1,2,2),(1,2,3),(1,2,4),(1,2,5), we are also able to show that any natural number can be written as w^4+a*x^2+b*y^2+c*z^2 with w,x,y,z integers.

Conjecture: For each triple (a,b,c) = (1,2,11),(1,2,12),(1,2,13),(2,3,5), any natural number can be written as w^4+a*x^2+b*y^2+c*z^2 with w,x,y,z integers.

We define the half-alternating sum of a sequence (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, ...) to be A + B - C - D + E + F - G - ...

Numbers which are square, cubic and quartic. - Doug Bell, Jun 03 2017

Conjecture: (i) a(n) > 0 for all n > 0, and a(n) = 1 only for n = 2^k, 4^k*m (k = 0,1,2,... and m = 3, 7, 31, 55, 71, 79, 151, 191).

(ii) For (b,c) = (8,8), (16,64), any positive integer can be written as w^2 + x^2 + y^2 + z^2 with x^4 + b*y^3*z + c*y*z^3 a fourth power, where w is a positive integer and x,y,z are nonnegative integers.

(iii) For each triple (a,b,c) = (1,20,60), (1,24,56), (9,20,60), (9,32,96), any positive integer can be written as w^2 + x^2 + y^2 + z^2 with a*x^4 + b*y^3*z + c*y*z^3 a square, where w is a positive integer and x,y,z are nonnegative integers.

The author has proved part (ii) of the conjecture in arXiv:1604.06723. - Zhi-Wei Sun, May 09 2016

If the array is transposed, T(n,k) is the number of oriented rows of n colors using up to k different colors. The formula would be T(n,k) = [n==0] + [n>0]*k^n. The generating function for column k would be 1/(1-k*x). For T(3,2)=8, the rows are AAA, AAB, ABA, ABB, BAA, BAB, BBA, and BBB. - Robert A. Russell, Nov 08 2018

T(n,k) is the number of multichains of length n from {} to [k] in the Boolean lattice B_k. - Geoffrey Critzer, Apr 03 2020

For any number n > 0, let f(n) be the polynomial in a single indeterminate x where the coefficient of x^e is the prime(1+e)-adic valuation of n (where prime(k) denotes the k-th prime); f establishes a bijection between the positive numbers and the polynomials in a single indeterminate x with nonnegative integer coefficients; let g be the inverse of f; T(n, k) = g(f(n) * f(k)).

This table has many similarities with A248601.

For any n > 0 and m > 0, f(n * m) = f(n) + f(m).

Also, f(1) = 0 and f(2) = 1.

The function f can be naturally extended to the set of positive rational numbers: if r = u/v (not necessarily in reduced form), then f(r) = f(u) - f(v); as such, f is a homomorphism from the multiplicative group of positive rational numbers to the additive group of polynomials of a single indeterminate x with integer coefficients.

See A297473 for the main diagonal of T.

As a binary operation, T(.,.) is related to A306697(.,.) and A329329(.,.). When their operands are terms of A050376 (sometimes called Fermi-Dirac primes) the three operations give the same result. However the rest of the multiplication table for T(.,.) can be derived from these results because T(.,.) distributes over integer multiplication (A003991), whereas for A306697 and A329329, the equivalent derivation uses distribution over A059896(.,.) and A059897(.,.) respectively. - Peter Munn, Mar 25 2020

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The operation defined by this sequence can be extended to be the multiplicative operator of a ring over the positive rationals that is isomorphic to the polynomial ring Z[x]. The extended function f (described in the author's original comments) is the isomorphism we use, and it has the same relationship with the extended operation that exists between their unextended equivalents.

Denoting this extension of T(.,.) as t_Q(.,.), we get t_Q(n, 1/k) = t_Q(1/n, k) = 1/T(n, k) and t_Q(1/n, 1/k) = T(n, k) for positive integers n and k. The result for other rationals is derived from the distributive property: t_Q(q, r*s) = t_Q(q, r) * t_Q(q, s); t_Q(q*r, s) = t_Q(q, s) * t_Q(r, s). This may look unusual because standard multiplication of rational numbers takes on the role of the ring's additive group.

There are many OEIS sequences that can be shown to be a list of the integers in an ideal of this ring. See the cross-references.

There are some completely additive sequences that similarly define by extension completely additive functions on the positive rationals that can be shown to be homomorphisms from this ring onto the integer ring Z, and these functions relate to some of the ideals. For example, the extended function of A048675, denoted A048675_Q, maps i/j to A048675(i) - A048675(j) for positive integers i and j. For any positive integer k, the set {r rational > 0 : k divides A048675_Q(r)} forms an ideal of the ring; for k=2 and k=3 the integers in this ideal are listed in A003159 and A332820 respectively.

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