OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
A geometric-arithmetic progression of primes is a set of k primes (denoted by GAP-k) of the form p r^j + j d for fixed p, r and d and consecutive j. Symbolically, for r = 1, this sequence simplifies to the familiar primes in arithmetic progression (denoted by AP-k). The computations were done without any assumptions on the form of d. Primality requires d to be multiple of 5# = 30 and coprime to 11.
LINKS
Sameen Ahmed Khan, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..3233
Sameen Ahmed Khan, Primes in Geometric-Arithmetic Progression, arXiv:1203.2083v1 [math.NT], (Mar 09 2012).
EXAMPLE
d = 165270 then {11*11^j + j*d}, j = 0 to 8, is {11, 165391, 331871, 510451, 822131, 2597911, 20478791, 215515771}, which is 8 primes in geometric-arithmetic progression.
MATHEMATICA
p = 11; gapset8d = {}; Do[If[PrimeQ[{p, p*p + d, p*p^2 + 2*d, p*p^3 + 3*d, p*p^4 + 4*d, p*p^5 + 5*d, p*p^6 + 6*d, p*p^7 + 7*d}] == {True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True}, AppendTo[gapset8d, d]], {d, 0, 10^7, 2}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Sameen Ahmed Khan, Mar 06 2012
STATUS
approved