Permutations: Adjacent Elements Sum to Primes
T. D. Noe
noe at sspectra.com
Sun Mar 27 01:14:18 CET 2005
At 4:18 PM -0500 3/26/05, Edwin Clark wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, James Buddenhagen wrote:
>>
>> Yes. A051239 is your sequence, each term divided by 2, and starting at 1.
>>
>
>This and sequence
>
>ID Number: A036440
>URL: http://www.research.att.com/projects/OEIS?Anum=A036440
>
>suggests that there may be a permutation p of the natural numbers such
>that p(i) + p(i+1) is prime for all i. Is anything known about this?
There are a few references in Guy's UPINT section C1. No solutions!
It appears that we can find a permutation in which the even (or odd)
numbers are in order. Can we always choose a permutation that yields only
twin primes?
Tony
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