OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Andreas Weingartner used the first 913685 terms of this sequence to prove that the equation sigma(x) = sigma(x+k) has at least one solution for every even k in the range 2 <= k <= 10^(10^7). The upper bound is just lower than the product of 2a(n)+1 of these terms which equals 3.222... * 10^10000007.
LINKS
Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000
A. Weingartner, On the Solutions of sigma(n) = sigma(n+k), Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 14 (2011), #11.5.5.
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 153, 2*153 + 1 = 307, 2*153 + 5 = 311, 3*153 + 2 = 461 and 3*153 + 8 = 467 are all primes.
MATHEMATICA
Select[33 + Range[0, 6*10^5]*60, PrimeQ[2 # + 1] && PrimeQ[2 # + 5] && PrimeQ[3 # + 2] && PrimeQ[3 # + 8] &]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Mar 10 2017
STATUS
approved