Asymptotic distribution of prime terms in sk(n)s_k(n)

Let (sk(n))k0(s_k(n))_{k\geq 0} be the sequence associated with the positive integer nn. For a fixed nn, define (kN)N1(k_N)_{N\geq 1} by requiring that skN(n)s_{k_N}(n) is the NNth prime term of (sk(n))k0(s_k(n))_{k\geq 0}. Let

λ=n+n242,\lambda=\frac{n+\sqrt{n^2-4}}{2},

and let γ\gamma be the Euler–Mascheroni constant. Asymptotic prime-distribution conjecture for sk(n)s_k(n). If n3n\geq 3 and nTp(j)n\neq\mathcal{T}_p(j) for every prime pp and every integer j3j\geq 3, then, as NN\to\infty,

loglogskN(n)CN,\log\log s_{k_N}(n)\sim C N,

where

C=eγlogλ.C=e^{-\gamma}\log\sqrt{\lambda}.

Numerical evidence for small values of nn supports the predicted linear behaviour and the constant, but the asymptotic remains unproved.

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Primary source

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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