Primes and polygonal numbers
Number Theory
2025-08-12 v4
Abstract
A linear combination of an \mbox{-gonal} number and an -gonal number with mutually coprime positive integer coefficients and produces infinitely many primes as and~ varies over the natural numbers, whereas the sum of the reciprocals of such primes converges unless and . For each pair of coprime positive integers and , there are arbitrary long arithmetic progressions among the primes of the form .
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@article{arxiv.2408.13650,
title = {Primes and polygonal numbers},
author = {Soumya Bhattacharya and Habibur Rahaman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.13650},
year = {2025}
}
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