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A005478 Prime Fibonacci numbers.
(Formerly M0741)
49
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.

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

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

R. Knott, Mathematics of the Fibonacci Series

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

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, 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, A030426, A075736.

Subsequence of A178762.

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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