OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
This is analogous to Sophie Germain semiprimes A111153 and the chains shown are analogous to Cunningham chains of the second kind and Tomaszewski chains of the second kind. Define a 3n-1 semiprime chain of length k. This is a sequence of semiprimes s(1) < s(2) < ... < s(k) such that s(i+1) = 3*s(i) - 1 for i = 1, ..., k-1. Length 3: 9, 26, 77; 49, 146, 437; 65, 194, 581; 129, 386, 1157; 158, 473, 1418; 187, 562, 1685. Length 4: 74, 221, 662, 1985; 122, 365, 1094, 3281. Length 5: 21, 62, 185, 554, 1661.
LINKS
Harvey P. Dale, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
EXAMPLE
n s(n) 3 *s -1
1 9 = 3^2 26 = 2 * 13
2 21 = 3 * 7 62 = 2 * 31
3 22 = 2 * 11 65 = 5 * 13
4 25 = 5^2 74 = 2 * 37
5 26 = 2 * 13 77 = 7 * 11
6 49 = 7^2 146 = 2 * 73
MATHEMATICA
Select[Range[600], PrimeOmega[#]==PrimeOmega[3#-1]==2&] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jun 20 2018 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Jonathan Vos Post, Oct 21 2005
EXTENSIONS
Corrected and extended by Ray Chandler, Oct 22 2005
STATUS
approved