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A303549
Lesser of twin primes p for which phi(p-1) = phi(p+1), where phi(n) is the Euler totient function (A000010).
1
5, 11, 71, 2591, 208391, 16692551, 48502931, 92012201, 249206231, 419445251, 496978301, 1329067391, 1837151681, 2277479051, 2647600061, 4733566391, 6435087011, 10327948751, 14089345691, 14923624031, 22415286251, 27508270301, 39662281331, 59013882071, 70353395351
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Intersection of A001359 and A067890 (or A066812).
The terms below 10^8 were taken from the paper by Garcia et al.
LINKS
Stephan Ramon Garcia, Elvis Kahoro and Florian Luca, Primitive root bias for twin primes, Experimental Mathematics (2017), pp. 1-10, alternative link, preprint, arXiv:1705.02485 [math.NT], 2017.
EXAMPLE
p = 5 is the lesser of the twin primes (5, 7), and phi(5-1) = phi(5+1) = 2.
MATHEMATICA
seq={}; Do[p = Prime[i]; If[PrimeQ[p+2] && EulerPhi[p-1] == EulerPhi[p+1], AppendTo[seq, p]], {i, 1, 1000000}]; seq
PROG
(PARI) isok(p) = isprime(p) && isprime(p+2) && (eulerphi(p-1) == eulerphi(p+1)); \\ Michel Marcus, Apr 26 2018
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Amiram Eldar, Apr 26 2018
EXTENSIONS
a(12)-a(16) from Michel Marcus, Apr 26 2018
a(17)-a(25) from Giovanni Resta, Apr 26 2018
STATUS
approved