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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

I conjecture that there are infinitely many linear relations p_n + p_{n + 3} = 2 p_{n + 2} in the sequence of primes!

For the musement of the trade alone, and not weary about real-life, in the spirit of GH Hardy, who invites us to do math as a fine art, I'm interested in constructing "random walks" on the prime numbers with certain "ergodic" properties. I've reduced my troubles to the following simple --to understand, not to solve!-- conjecture. Viz,

 Let p_1 < p_2 < p_3 < \ldots < p_n < \ldots be the sequence of primes (with p_1 := 2 as usual).

Conjecture: There are infinitely many positive integers n for which
\begin{eqnarray} p_n + p_{n + 3} - 2 p_{n + 2} = 0. \end{eqnarray}

For example, the above relation holds for n = 2 since p_2+ p_5 - 2p_4 = 3 + 7 - 2 \times 5 = 0. Follow technical thread here.

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