Dickson's conjecture

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In number theory, Dickson's conjecture is the statement that for a finite set of linear forms a1+b1n,a2+b2n,,ak+bkna_{1}+b_{1}n,a_{2}+b_{2}n,\dots,a_{k}+b_{k}n with each ⁠ bi1b_{i}\geq 1 ⁠, there are infinitely many positive integers nn for which they are all prime, unless there is a congruence condition preventing this. The conjecture is named after Leonard Dickson, who first proposed it in 1904. The case k=1k=1 is Dirichlet's theorem. Two other special cases are well-known conjectures: that there are infinitely many twin primes (⁠ nn ⁠ and n+2n+2 are primes), and that there are infinitely many Sophie Germain primes (⁠ nn ⁠ and 2n+12n+1 are primes).

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