OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Nik Lygeros and Olivier Rozier found a new solution to the equation tau(p) + 1 == 0 (mod p) for prime p = 692881373, on September 6 2009. - Seiichi Manyama, Dec 30 2017
a(5) > 8*10^7. - Seiichi Manyama, Jan 01 2018
A superset of A193855. - Jud McCranie, Nov 06 2020
LINKS
N. Lygeros and O. Rozier, A new solution to the equation tau(p) == 0 (mod p), J. Int. Seq. 13 (2010) # 10.7.4.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Tau Function.
Wikipedia, Ramanujan tau function.
EXAMPLE
tau(11) = 534612 and 11 | (534612 - 1), so a(1) = 11.
tau(23) = 18643272 and 23 | (18643272 - 1), so a(2) = 23.
tau(691) = -2747313442193908 and 691 | (-2747313442193908 - 1), so a(3) = 691.
tau(5807) = 237456233554906855056 and 5807 | (237456233554906855056 + 1), so a(4) = 5807.
MATHEMATICA
Select[Prime@ Range[10^3], Function[p, AnyTrue[RamanujanTau[p] + {-1, 1}, Divisible[#, p] &]]] (* Michael De Vlieger, Dec 30 2017 *)
PROG
(PARI) isok(p) = my(rp=ramanujantau(p)); isprime(p) && !((rp-1) % p) || !((rp+1) % p); \\ Michel Marcus, Nov 07 2020
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Seiichi Manyama, Nov 25 2017
STATUS
approved