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Conjectures about Mersenne primes

Are there infinitely many Mersenne primes?

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Are there infinitely many Mersenne primes?

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infinitely_many_mersenne_primes

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theorem infinitely_many_mersenne_primes :  answer(sorry)  Set.Infinite { p :  | (mersenne p).Prime } := by    sorry /--The first five Catalan-Mersenne numbers $c_0, \ldots, c_4$ are known to be prime.Catalan conjectured that they are prime "up to a certain limit".Are all Catalan-Mersenne numbers $c_n$ with $n \geq 5$ prime?-/@[category research open, AMS 11]theorem catalans_mersenne_conjecture :    answer(sorry)   n  5, Nat.Prime (catalanMersenne n) := by  sorry
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