Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 28 (2025), Article 25.2.4

Arbitrarily Long Sequences of Sierpiński Numbers that are the Sum of a Sierpiński Number and a Mersenne Number


Carrie E. Finch-Smith
Department of Mathematics
Washington and Lee University
204 W. Washington Street
Lexington, VA 24450
USA

R. Scottfield Groth
Department of Mathematics
University of South Carolina
1523 Greene Street
Columbia, SC 29208
USA

Abstract:

Y.-G. Chen conjectured that for any positive integer r, there are infinitely many sets of r consecutive integers that are all Sierpiński and Riesel, and he demonstrated this result for r = 5. In this paper, we prove a variation of Chen's conjecture. In particular, we show that for any positive integer r, there exists an arithmetic progression of positive integers k such that the set {k + 2t — 1 : 0 ≤ tr — 1} contains r Sierpiński integers.


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(Concerned with sequences A000225 A076336 A101036.)


Received July 7 2022; revised versions received July 18 2022, November 17 2023, March 14 2025. Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, March 15 2025.


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