A227899 - OEIS

A227899

Number of primes p < n with 3*p - 4 and n^2 + (n - p)^2 both prime.

0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 1, 2, 6, 2, 4, 2, 3, 5, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 1, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 6, 7, 5, 3, 3, 9, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 1, 2, 8, 3, 6, 2, 2, 8, 4, 7, 2, 2, 5, 2, 3, 3, 2, 8, 3, 3, 1, 4, 7, 5, 9, 2, 2, 5

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OFFSET

1,8

COMMENTS

Conjecture: a(n) > 0 for all n > 3.

LINKS

Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Zhi-Wei Sun, Conjectures involving primes and quadratic forms, preprint, arXiv:1211.1588.

EXAMPLE

a(5) = 1 since 5 = 3 + 2, and the three numbers 3, 3*3 - 4 = 5 and 5^2 + (5-3)^2 = 29 are all prime.

MATHEMATICA

a[n_]:=Sum[If[PrimeQ[3Prime[i]-4]&&PrimeQ[n^2+(n-Prime[i])^2], 1, 0], {i, 1, PrimePi[n-1]}]