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A355525
Minimal difference between adjacent prime indices of n, or k if n is the k-th prime.
11
1, 2, 0, 3, 1, 4, 0, 0, 2, 5, 0, 6, 3, 1, 0, 7, 0, 8, 0, 2, 4, 9, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 10, 1, 11, 0, 3, 6, 1, 0, 12, 7, 4, 0, 13, 1, 14, 0, 0, 8, 15, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 16, 0, 2, 0, 6, 9, 17, 0, 18, 10, 0, 0, 3, 1, 19, 0, 7, 1, 20, 0, 21, 11, 0, 0, 1, 1, 22, 0, 0, 12
OFFSET
2,2
COMMENTS
A prime index of n is a number m such that prime(m) divides n. The multiset of prime indices of n is row n of A112798.
EXAMPLE
The prime indices of 9842 are {1,4,8,12}, with differences (3,4,4), so a(9842) = 3.
MATHEMATICA
primeMS[n_]:=If[n==1, {}, Flatten[Cases[FactorInteger[n], {p_, k_}:>Table[PrimePi[p], {k}]]]];
Table[If[PrimeQ[n], PrimePi[n], Min@@Differences[primeMS[n]]], {n, 2, 100}]
CROSSREFS
Crossrefs found in the link are not repeated here.
Positions of first appearances are 4 followed by A000040.
Positions of 0's are A013929, see also A130091.
Triangle A238709 counts m such that A056239(m) = n and a(m) = k.
For maximal instead of minimal difference we have A286470.
Positions of terms > 1 are A325160, also A325161.
See also A355524, A355528.
Positions of 1's are A355527.
A001522 counts partitions with a fixed point (unproved), ranked by A352827.
A238352 counts partitions by fixed points, rank statistic A352822.
A287352, A355533, A355534, A355536 list the differences of prime indices.
Sequence in context: A355533 A355528 A277697 * A241917 A355526 A243056
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Gus Wiseman, Jul 10 2022
STATUS
approved