OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
a(n) exists for all n, which is easily shown by Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions.
Apart from 3, the first term that is not a term in A005385 is 239. The first term in A092307 and A119660 (apart from 2) that is not a term here is 443.
Clearly all safe primes are in this sequence, and all terms except a(2) = 5 are == 3 (mod 4).
LINKS
Robert Israel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
EXAMPLE
a(13) = 239 since lcm(a(1)-1, a(2)-1, ..., a(12)-1) = 2^2*3*5*11*23*29*41*53*83*89*113 and 239-1 = 2*7*17.
MAPLE
A[1]:= 3: L:= 2:
for i from 2 to 100 do
p:= nextprime(A[i-1]);
while igcd(L, p-1) > 2 do p:= nextprime(p) od:
A[i]:= p;
L:= ilcm(L, p-1);
od:
seq(A[i], i=1..100); # Robert Israel, Apr 29 2018
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Jianing Song, Apr 29 2018
EXTENSIONS
Corrected by Robert Israel, Apr 29 2018
STATUS
approved