OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Conjecture: Any even number greater than 35 can be written as a sum of four terms of this sequence.
Primes in the sequence should be sparser than twin primes although this has not been proved.
LINKS
Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
Zhi-Wei Sun, Conjectures involving primes and quadratic forms, preprint, arXiv:1211.1588.
EXAMPLE
a(1) = 7 since 3*7-4 = 17, 3*7-10 = 11 and 3*7-14 = 7 are prime.
MATHEMATICA
RQ[n_]:=n>5&&PrimeQ[3n-4]&&PrimeQ[3n-10]&&PrimeQ[3n-14]
m=0
Do[If[RQ[Prime[n]], m=m+1; Print[m, " ", Prime[n]]], {n, 1, 1000}]
Select[Prime[Range[700]], AllTrue[3#-{4, 10, 14}, PrimeQ]&] (* Harvey P. Dale, Sep 29 2023 *)
PROG
(PARI) is(p)=isprime(p) && isprime(3*p-4) && isprime(3*p-10) && isprime(3*p-14) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 12 2013
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Zhi-Wei Sun, Oct 12 2013
STATUS
approved