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A051635 Weak primes: prime(n) < (prime(n-1) + prime(n+1))/2. 50

%I #68 Apr 09 2024 21:15:58

%S 3,7,13,19,23,31,43,47,61,73,83,89,103,109,113,131,139,151,167,181,

%T 193,199,229,233,241,271,283,293,313,317,337,349,353,359,383,389,401,

%U 409,421,433,443,449,463,467,491,503,509,523,547,571,577,601,619,643,647

%N Weak primes: prime(n) < (prime(n-1) + prime(n+1))/2.

%C Primes prime(n) such that prime(n)-prime(n-1) < prime(n+1)-prime(n). - _Juri-Stepan Gerasimov_, Jan 01 2011

%C a(n) < A051634(n). a(n) ~ 2*prime(n). - _Thomas Ordowski_, Jul 25 2012

%C The inequality above is false. The least counterexample is a(19799) = 496291 > A051634(19799) = 496283. - _Amiram Eldar_, Nov 26 2023

%C Erdős called a weak prime an "early prime." He conjectured that there are infinitely many consecutive pairs of early primes, and offered $100 for a proof and $25000 for a disproof (Kuperberg 1992). See A229832 for a stronger conjecture. - _Jonathan Sondow_, Oct 13 2013

%D A. Murthy, Smarandache Notions Journal, Vol. 11 N. 1-2-3 Spring 2000

%H Amiram Eldar, <a href="/A051635/b051635.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a> (terms 1..1000 from T. D. Noe)

%H Greg Kuperberg, <a href="http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/93_back/prizes.erd">The Erdos kitty: At least $9050 in prizes!</a>, Newsgroups: rec.puzzles, sci.math, 1992. [Broken link]

%H Greg Kuperberg, <a href="/A051635/a051635.erd.txt">The Erdos kitty: At least $9050 in prizes!</a>, Newsgroups: rec.puzzles, sci.math, 1992. [Cached copy]

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_prime">Weak prime</a>.

%F a(1) = A229832(1). - _Jonathan Sondow_, Oct 13 2013

%F Conjecture: Limit_{n->oo} n / PrimePi(a(n)) = 1/2. - _Alain Rocchelli_, Mar 17 2024

%e 7 belongs to the sequence because 7 < (5+11)/2.

%t Transpose[Select[Partition[Prime[Range[10^2]], 3, 1], #[[2]]<(#[[1]]+#[[3]])/2 &]][[2]] (* _Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky_, May 01 2008 *)

%t p=Prime[Range[200]]; p[[Flatten[1+Position[Sign[Differences[p, 2]], 1]]]]

%o (PARI) p=2;q=3;forprime(r=5,1e3,if(2*q<p+r,print1(q", "));p=q;q=r) \\ _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Jul 25 2011

%o (Haskell)

%o a051635 n = a051635_list !! (n-1)

%o a051635_list = g a000040_list where

%o g (p:qs@(q:r:ps)) = if 2 * q < (p + r) then q : g qs else g qs

%o -- _Reinhard Zumkeller_, May 09 2013

%Y Cf. A006562, A051634, A229832.

%Y Subsequence of A178943.

%Y Cf. A225495 (multiplicative closure).

%K nice,nonn,easy

%O 1,1

%A _Felice Russo_, Nov 15 1999

%E More terms from _James A. Sellers_

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