[seqfan] Re: (no subject)

[israel at math.ubc.ca]

Of course, we don't know whether the Fermat primes are finite or not.  
We do know that all primes of the form 2^n+1, and more generally a^n+b^n 
where one of a and b is even and the other odd, 
must be of the quite special form a^(2^k)+b^(2^k), 
because if n is divisible by an odd number d, a^n + b^n would be
divisible by a^(n/d) + b^(n/d).  

But all this says about 1+2^a*3^b being prime is that gcd(a,b) 
must be a power of 2 (including 1).

Cheers,
Robert

On Dec 6 2017, Frank Adams-Watters via SeqFan wrote:

> A005109 includes primes of the form 2^n + 1 (i.e., Fermat primes), while 
> A058383 includes them.
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>I is the finitude of the Fermat primes that led to wonder about these.
>
>Franklin T. Adams-Watters
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>At the moment, I cannot reach OEIS. But coincidentally I ran into primes of
>this class in a completely different context, only yesterday. Wikipedia, at
>least, calls them "Pierpont primes", primes p such that p-1 is 3-smooth.
>The article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierpont_prime attributes to
>Andrew Gleason the conjecture that there are infinitely many Pierpont
>primes. Curiously, the article refers to the sequence A005109, not A058383;
>I can't investigate this discrepancy until OEIS starts answering the phone
>for me.
>
>On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Hugo Pfoertner <yae9911 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In the range 1<=a,b<=500 there are 2111 primes of this form. Large
>> examples: 1+(2^498)*(3^493) or 1+(2^994)*(3^993). Why should there be a
>> limit?
>>> Hugo Pfoertner>> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Frank Adams-Watters 
>>> via SeqFan <
>> seqfan at list.seqfan.eu> wrote:>
>> > Is https://oeis.org/A058383 (Primes of form 1+(2^a)*(3^b)) infinite?> 
>> > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters> >> >> > --> > Seqfan Mailing list - 
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