OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The sequence appears to contain most primes (except 11, ...) and some odd semiprimes (33, 65, 77, ...). What can be said about these "exceptional" values? What are the first terms with more prime factors?
The sequence remains nearly the same if k^k is replaced by k^2, cf. A309290. Then 0 and 11 are in the sequence but 3, 13, 37 and 53 are not.
97 is a term (see SeqFan list discussion). - Chai Wah Wu, Jul 20 2020
LINKS
Juri-Stepan Gerasimov and others, C(2n,n) - n^2 and C(n^2,n) - n^n, SeqFan list, April 20, 2018.
MATHEMATICA
Select[Range[0, 50], SquareFreeQ[Binomial[#^2, #] - #^#] &]
PROG
(PARI) is(n)=issquarefree(binomial(n^2, n)-n^n)
for(n=0, oo, is(n) && print1(n, ", "))
(Magma) [0] cat [n: n in [2..45] | IsSquarefree(Binomial(n^2, n) - n^n)];
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler (at the suggestion of Juri-Stepan Gerasimov and others), Jul 31 2019
STATUS
approved