OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The primes following a(5) and a(6) occur at a(n)+30*k, k=0..(n-1). a(6) was found by Lander and Parkin. The next term requires a spacing >= 210. The expected size is a(7) > 10^21 (see link). - Hugo Pfoertner, Jun 25 2004
From Daniel Forgues, Jan 17 2011: (Start)
It is conjectured that there are arithmetic progressions of n consecutive primes for any n.
Common differences of first and smallest AP of n >= 1 consecutive primes: {0, 1, 2, 6, 30, 30, >= 210, >= 210, >= 210, >= 210, >= 2310, ...} (End)
a(7) <= 71137654873189893604531, found by P. Zimmermann, cf. J. K. Andersen link. - Bert Dobbelaere, Jul 27 2022
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Jens Kruse Andersen, The smallest known CPAP-k.
Chris K. Caldwell, Consecutive Primes in Arithmetic Progression
Harvey Dubner and Harry Nelson, Seven consecutive primes in arithmetic progression, Math. Comp., 66 (1997) 1743-1749. MR 98a:11122.
H. Dubner, T. Forbes, N. Lygeros, M. Mizony, H. Nelson, and P. Zimmermann, Ten consecutive primes in arithmetic progression, Math. Comp., Vol. 71, No. 239 (2002) 1323-1328.
Daniel Forgues, Wiki about consecutive primes in arithmetic progression.
L. J. Lander and T. R. Parkin, Consecutive primes in arithmetic progression, Math. Comp., Vol. 21, No. 99 (1967) p 489.
Manfred Toplic, The nine and ten primes project, 2004.
FORMULA
EXAMPLE
First and smallest occurrence of n, n >= 1, consecutive primes in arithmetic progression:
a(1) = 2: (2) (degenerate arithmetic progression);
a(2) = 2: (2, 3) (degenerate arithmetic progression);
a(3) = 3: (3, 5, 7);
a(4) = 251: (251, 257, 263, 269);
a(5) = 9843019: (9843019, 9843049, 9843079, 9843109, 9843139);
a(6) = 121174811: (121174811, 121174841, 121174871, 121174901, 121174931, 121174961);
MATHEMATICA
Join[{2}, Table[SelectFirst[Partition[Prime[Range[691*10^4]], n, 1], Length[ Union[ Differences[ #]]] == 1&][[1]], {n, 2, 6}]] (* Requires Mathematica version 10 or later *) (* Harvey P. Dale, Aug 10 2019 *)
CROSSREFS
Cf. A089180: indices primes a(n).
Cf. A054800: start of 4 consecutive primes in arithmetic progression (CPAP-4), A033451: start of CPAP-4 with common difference 6, A052239: start of first CPAP-4 with common difference 6n.
Cf. A059044: start of 5 consecutive primes in arithmetic progression, A210727: CPAP-5 with common difference 60.
Cf. A058362: start of 6 consecutive primes in arithmetic progression.
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more,nice
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Edited by Daniel Forgues, Jan 17 2011
STATUS
approved