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A005478 Prime Fibonacci numbers.
(Formerly M0741)
45
2, 3, 5, 13, 89, 233, 1597, 28657, 514229, 433494437, 2971215073, 99194853094755497, 1066340417491710595814572169, 19134702400093278081449423917, 475420437734698220747368027166749382927701417016557193662268716376935476241 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

a(n) == 1 mod 4 for n > 2. (Proof. Otherwise 3 < a(n) = F_k == 3 mod 4. Then k == 4 mod 6 (see A079343 and A161553) and so k is not prime. But k is prime since F_k is prime and k =/= 4 - see Caldwell.)

More generally, A190949(n) == 1 mod 4.

REFERENCES

J. Brillhart, P. L. Montgomery and R. D. Silverman, Tables of Fibonacci and Lucas factorizations, Math. Comp. 50 (1988), 251-260.

J.-M. De Koninck, Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Entry 89, p. 32, Ellipses, Paris 2008.

Tony D. Noe and Jonathan Vos Post, Primes in Fibonacci n-step and Lucas n-step Sequences, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 8 (2005), Article 05.4.4.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..23

R. Knott, Mathematics of the Fibonacci Series

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

C. Caldwell's The Top Twenty, Fibonacci Number.

FORMULA

a(n)=A000045(A001605(n)). A000040 INTERSECT A000045. - R. J. Mathar, Nov 01 2007

MATHEMATICA

a={}; Do[f=Fibonacci[n]; If[PrimeQ[f], AppendTo[a, f]], {n, 1, 10^2, 1}]; a (* Vladimir Orlovsky, Jul 21 2008 *)

Select[Fibonacci[Range[400]], PrimeQ] (* Alonso del Arte, Oct 13 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) je=[]; for(n=0, 400, if(isprime(fibonacci(n)), je=concat(je, fibonacci(n)))); je

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001605, A000045.

Cf. A030426, A075736.

Sequence in context: A139589 A152114 A139095 * A117740 A041047 A120494

Adjacent sequences:  A005475 A005476 A005477 * A005479 A005480 A005481

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane.

EXTENSIONS

Sequence corrected by Enoch Haga, Feb 11 2000

One more term from Jason Earls (zevi_35711(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 12 2001

Comment and proof added by Jonathan Sondow, May 24 2011

STATUS

approved

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