OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Conjecture: a(n) > 0 for all n > 0, and a(n) = 1 only for n = 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 28, 34,37, 77.
Note that a prime p with p + 2 a product of at most two primes is called a Chen prime.
REFERENCES
J.-R. Chen, On the representation of a large even integer as the sum of a prime and a product of at most two primes, Sci. Sinica 16(1973), 157-176.
LINKS
Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Zhi-Wei Sun, Problems on combinatorial properties of primes, arXiv:1402.6641, 2014.
EXAMPLE
a(7) = 1 since 2*3 + 1 = 7 and prime(3)*prime(7) - 2 = 5*17 - 2 = 83 are both prime.
a(8) = 1 since 2*8 + 1 = 17 and prime(8)*prime(8) - 2 = 19^2 - 2 = 359 are both prime.
a(77) = 1 since 2*20 + 1 = 41 and prime(20)*prime(77) - 2 = 71*389 - 2 = 27617 are both prime.
MATHEMATICA
p[n_, k_]:=PrimeQ[2k+1]&&PrimeQ[Prime[n]*Prime[k]-2]
a[n_]:=Sum[If[p[n, k], 1, 0], {k, 1, n}]
Table[a[n], {n, 1, 80}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Zhi-Wei Sun, Mar 01 2014
STATUS
approved