Infinitely many primes in the Chebyshev-related sequence sk(n)s_k(n)

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Let (sk(n))k≥0(s_k(n))_{k\geq 0} be the sequence associated with the positive integer parameter nn, and let Tp(j)\mathcal{T}_p(j) denote the dilated Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind evaluated at the integer jj. Prime-occurrence conjecture for sk(n)s_k(n). For every positive integer n>1n>1, the sequence

(sk(n))k≥0(s_k(n))_{k\geq 0}

contains infinitely many primes if and only if n≠Tp(j)n\neq\mathcal{T}_p(j) for every prime pp and every integer j≥3j\geq 3. The exceptional Chebyshev values are known to yield at most one prime term, while the assertion of infinitely many primes for all other values remains open.

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Andrew N. W. Hone, L. Edson Jeffery and Robert G. Selcoe, “On a family of sequences related to Chebyshev polynomials”, arXiv:1802.01793 (2018).

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