A123206 Primes of the form x^y - y^x, for x,y > 1.

7, 17, 79, 431, 58049, 130783, 162287, 523927, 2486784401, 6102977801, 8375575711, 13055867207, 83695120256591, 375700268413577, 2251799813682647, 9007199254738183, 79792265017612001, 1490116119372884249

Offset

1,1

Comments

These are the primes in A045575, numbers of the form x^y - y^x, for x,y > 1. This includes all primes from A122735, smallest prime of the form (n^k - k^n) for k>1.

If y=1 was allowed, any prime p could be obtained for x=p+1. This motivates to consider sequence A243100 of primes of the form x^(y+1)-y^x. - M. F. Hasler, Aug 19 2014

Links

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..101 (terms < 10^400)

H. Lifchitz & R. Lifchitz, PRP of the form x^y-y^x on primenumbers.net.

Example

The primes 6102977801 and 1490116119372884249 are of the form 5^y-y^5 (for y=14 and y=26) and therefore members of this sequence. The next larger primes of this form would have y > 4500 and would be much too large to be included. - M. F. Hasler, Aug 19 2014

Maple

N:= 10^100: # to get all terms <= N
A:= NULL:
for x from 2 while x^(x+1) - (x+1)^x <= N do
   for y from x+1 do
      z:= x^y - y^x;
      if z > N then break
      elif z > 0 and isprime(z) then A:=A, z;
      fi
od od:
{A}; # Robert Israel, Aug 29 2014

Mathematica

Take[Select[Intersection[Flatten[Table[Abs[x^y-y^x], {x, 2, 120}, {y, 2, 120}]]], PrimeQ[ # ]&], 25]
nn=10^50; n=1; t=Union[Reap[While[n++; k=n+1; num=Abs[n^k-k^n]; num<nn, Sow[num]; While[k++; num=n^k-k^n; num<nn, Sow[num]]]][[2, 1]]]; Select[t, PrimeQ]
With[{nn=30}, Take[Sort[Select[#[[1]]^#[[2]]-#[[2]]^#[[1]]&/@Subsets[ Range[ 2nn], {2}], #>0&&PrimeQ[#]&]], nn]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Nov 23 2013 *)

Prog

(PARI) a=[]; for(S=1, 199, for(x=2, S-2, ispseudoprime(p=x^(y=S-x)-y^x)&&a=concat(a, p))); Set(a) \\ May be incomplete in the upper range of values, i.e., beyond a given S=x+y, a larger S may yield a smaller prime (for small x). - M. F. Hasler, Aug 19 2014

Crossrefs

Cf. A045575, A122735, A078202, A082754, A055651, A094133.

A163319 is the subsequences for fixed x=3, A243114 for x=6.

Cf. A072180, A109387, A117705, A117706, A128447, A128449, A128450, A128451, A122003, A128453, A128454.

Sequence in context: A107693 A217717 A122528 * A035078 A359015 A177123

Adjacent sequences: A123203 A123204 A123205 * A123207 A123208 A123209

Keyword

nonn

Author

Alexander Adamchuk, Oct 04 2006

Status

approved