OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Related to the rank of some elliptic curves by the conjecture on page 2 of [Hatley]:
Let E_p be the elliptic curve defined by y^2 = x(x-p)(x-2) where p and p-2 are twin primes.
Then Rank(E_p) = 0 if p == 7 (mod 8), 1 if p == 3,5 (mod 8), 2 if p == 1 (mod 8).
REFERENCES
Joseph H. Silverman, The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves, Springer-Verlag, 1986.
LINKS
Jeffrey Hatley, On the Rank of the Elliptic Curve y^2=x(x-p)(x-2), arXiv:0909.1614 [math.NT], 2009.
MAPLE
A006512 := proc(n) if n = 1 then 5; else for a from procname(n-1)+2 by 2 do if isprime(a) and isprime(a-2) then RETURN(a) ; fi; od: fi; end:
MATHEMATICA
Mod[#, 8]&/@(Select[Partition[Prime[Range[800]], 2, 1], #[[2]]-#[[1]]==2&][[All, 2]]) (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 26 2016 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Jonathan Vos Post, Sep 09 2009
EXTENSIONS
Redefined for the larger member of twin primes by R. J. Mathar, Sep 16 2009
STATUS
approved