A163776 a(n) is the n-th dS-prime (dual Shuffle prime).

4, 6, 12, 22, 28, 36, 46, 52, 60, 70, 78, 100, 102, 148, 166, 172, 180, 190, 196, 198, 238, 262, 268, 270, 292, 310, 316, 348, 358, 366, 372, 382, 388, 420, 460, 462, 478, 486, 502, 508, 540, 556, 598, 606, 612, 646, 652, 660, 676, 700, 708, 718, 742, 750, 756

Offset

1,1

Comments

For N>=2, the family of dual shuffle permutations is defined by p(m,N) = -2m (mod N+1) if N is even, p(m,N) = -2m (mod N) if N is odd and 1<=m<N, p(N,N) = N if N is odd. N is dS-prime if p(m,N) consists of a single cycle of length N. So all dS-primes are even.

No formula is known for a(n): the dS-primes have been found by exhaustive search. But we have: N is dS-prime iff p=N+1 is an odd prime number and -2 generates Z_p^* (the multiplicative group of Z_p).

Links

P. R. J. Asveld, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..3612

P. R. J. Asveld, Permuting operations on strings and their relation to prime numbers, Discrete Applied Mathematics 159 (2011) 1915-1932.

P. R. J. Asveld, Permuting operations on strings and the distribution of their prime numbers (2011), TR-CTIT-11-24, Dept. of CS, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands.

P. R. J. Asveld, Some Families of Permutations and Their Primes (2009), TR-CTIT-09-27, Dept. of CS, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands.

P. R. J. Asveld, Permuting Operations on Strings-Their Permutations and Their Primes, Twente University of Technology, 2014. University link.

Index entries for sequences related to the Josephus Problem

Formula

a(n) = 2*A163781(n).

Example

For N=6 and N=10 we obtain the permutations (1 5 4 6 2 3) and (1 9 4 3 5)(2 7 8 6 10): 6 is dS-prime, but 10 is not.

Crossrefs

a(n)/2 results in the dual Josephus_2-primes (A163781). Considered as sets a(n)/2 is the union of A163777 and A163780. If b(n) denotes the shuffle primes (A071642), then the union of a(n)/2 and b(n)/2 is equal to the Twist-primes or Queneau numbers (A054639), their intersection is equal to the Archimedes_0-primes (A163777).

Sequence in context: A020141 A049478 A263458 * A050558 A331192 A255843

Adjacent sequences: A163773 A163774 A163775 * A163777 A163778 A163779

Keyword

nonn

Author

Peter R. J. Asveld, Aug 13 2009

Extensions

a(33)-a(55) from Andrew Howroyd, Nov 11 2017

Status

approved