[seqfan] Q A139312 simple prime indicator function

Richard Mathar mathar at strw.leidenuniv.nl
Wed Jun 15 23:41:36 CEST 2011


Can someone explain the terms in http://oeis.org/A139312 (uned) which
appears to be some variant of sign(A056221(n)) by definition, or intended
to be a characteristic function dividing A046869 by A068828 according
to prime(n)^1-prime(n-1)*prime(n+1). This, at least, is what the formula says..
the references to A028388 and A130903 are misleading, I suspect.
My version, according to the formula, would start with offset 2, because the 2nd
prime is the first element in the sequence to consider:
0,1,0,1,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,1,1,0,1
And that does not match with the terms.

Maple (and it may help to run the Mma provided in the sequence):
for n from 2 to 100 do
        p := ithprime(n) ;
        q := nextprime(p) ;
        r := prevprime(p) ;
        p^2-q*r ; # A056221
        if % >= 0 then # A068828
                printf("%d,",1) ;
        else
                printf("%d,",0) ;
        end if;
end do:





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