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Fibonacci Primes

There are infinitely many Fibonacci primes, i.e., Fibonacci numbers that are prime It is also a barrier to defining a benchmark from this paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2505.13938v1 (see Figure 8).

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Fibonacci Primes: Variant

There are infinitely many indices ii, such that the ii-th Fibonacci is prime.

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Firoozbakht's conjecture

Firoozbakht's conjecture* The inequality pn+1n+1<pnn\sqrt[n+1]{p_{n+1}} < \sqrt[n]{p_n} holds for all prime numbers pnp_n.

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Gauss circle problem

It is conjectured that the correct bound is

E(r)=O(r1/2+o(1)) |E(r)| = O\left(r^{1/2 + o(1)}\right)

[Ha59] Hardy, G. H. (1959). Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work(3rd ed.). New York: Chelsea Publishing Company. p. 67

See also https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03549

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Gilbreath's conjecture

Gilbreath's conjecture* Gilbreath's conjecture states that every term in the sequence d0kd^k_0 for k>0k > 0 is equal to 1.

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Goldbach's conjecture

Can every even integer greater than 2 be written as the sum of two primes?

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Grimm's conjecture

Grimm's Conjecture* If n,n+1,,n+k1n, n+1, \dots, n+k-1 are all composite numbers, then there are kk distinct primes pip_i such that pip_i divides n+in + i for all 0ik10 \le i \le k-1.

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Grimm's conjecture

Grimm's Conjecture, weaker version* If n,n+1,,n+k1n, n+1, \dots, n+k-1 are all composite numbers, then their product has at least kk distinct prime divisors.

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Hall's conjecture

Original Hall's conjecture with exponent 1/21/2.

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Hall's conjecture

Weak form of Hall's conjecture: relax the exponent from 1/21/2 to 1/2ε1/2 - \varepsilon.

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First Hardy–Littlewood conjecture

Let P=(m1,,mk)P = (m_1, \dots, m_k) be a tuple of positive even integers. Let πP(n)\pi_P(n) denote the number of primes pnp\leq n such that (p,p+m1,,p+mk)(p, p + m_1, \dots, p + m_k) forms an admissible prime constellation. Let w(q;m1,,mk)w(q; m_1, \dots, m_k) denote the number of distinct residues of 0,m1,,mk0, m_1, \dots, m_k modulo qq, and let

CP=2kq primeq31w(q;m1,,mk)q(11q)k+1. C_P = 2 ^ k\prod_{\substack{q\ \text{prime} \\ q\geq 3}} \frac{1 - \frac{w(q; m_1, \dots, m_k)}{q}}{\left(1 - \frac{1}{q}\right)^{k+1}}.

Then

πP(n)CP2ndtlogk+1t. \pi_P(n)\sim C_P\int_2^n\frac{dt}{\log^{k+1}t}.
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First Hardy–Littlewood conjecture

For integers x,y2x, y \geq 2,

π(x+y)π(x)+π(y), \pi(x + y) \leq \pi(x) + \pi(y),

where π(z)\pi(z) denotes the prime-counting function, giving the number of primes up to and including zz.

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Open questions on irrationality of numbers

Is the Catalan constant G=n=0(1)n/(2n+1)20.91596G = \sum_{n=0}^∞ (-1)^n / (2n + 1)^2 \approx 0.91596 irrational?

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Juggler conjecture

Now form a sequence beginning with any positive integer, where each subsequent term is obtained by applying the operation defined above to the previous term. The Juggler Conjecture states that for any positive integer nn, there exists a natural number mm such that the mm-th term of the sequence is 11.

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Kummer–Vandiver conjecture

Kummer–Vandiver conjecture states that for every prime pp, the class number of the maximal real subfield of Q(ζp)\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_p) is not divisible by pp.

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Lander, Parkin, and Selfridge Conjecture

The Lander–Parkin–Selfridge conjecture: if the sum of nn positive integer kk-th powers equals the sum of mm positive integer kk-th powers, with all values on the left distinct from all values on the right, then n+mkn + m \geq k.

Formally, for positive integers k,n,mNk, n, m \in \mathbb{N} and sequences x:{0,,n1}Nx : \{0, \ldots, n-1\} \to \mathbb{N} and y:{0,,m1}Ny : \{0, \ldots, m-1\} \to \mathbb{N} with xi>0x_i > 0, yj>0y_j > 0, and xiyjx_i \neq y_j for all i,ji, j, if i=0n1xik=j=0m1yjk,\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} x_i^k = \sum_{j=0}^{m-1} y_j^k, then kn+mk \leq n + m.

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Lander, Parkin, and Selfridge Conjecture: Five Three

Special case of the Lander–Parkin–Selfridge conjecture: there is no solution in positive integers to x15+x25+x35=y5.x_1^5 + x_2^5 + x_3^5 = y^5. That is, for all x1,x2,x3,yNx_1, x_2, x_3, y \in \mathbb{N} with x1,x2,x3,y>0x_1, x_2, x_3, y > 0, x15+x25+x35y5.x_1^5 + x_2^5 + x_3^5 \neq y^5. This corresponds to the case k=5k = 5, n=3n = 3, m=1m = 1 of the general conjecture, where n+m=4<5=kn + m = 4 < 5 = k would be required to yield a counterexample.

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Legendre's conjecture

Does there always exist at least one prime between consecutive perfect squares?

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Lehmer's Mahler measure problem

Let M(f) denote the Mahler measure of f. There exists a constant μ>1 such that for any f(x)∈ℤ[x], M(f)>1 → M(f)≥μ.

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