Infinitely many primes in the companion sequence rk(n)r_k(n)

Let (rk(n))k0(r_k(n))_{k\geq 0} be the companion sequence associated with the positive integer parameter nn, and let Tp(j)\mathcal{T}_p(j) denote the relevant dilated Chebyshev value. Prime-occurrence conjecture for rk(n)r_k(n). For every positive integer n>2n>2, the sequence

(rk(n))k0(r_k(n))_{k\geq 0}

contains infinitely many primes if and only if nTp(j)n\neq\mathcal{T}_p(j) for every prime pp, where the integer j3j\geq 3 is restricted to one of the values specified in the paper's Theorem tmaint\mathrm{tmaint}. This is presented as the analogous expected behaviour for the companion family; no proof or resolution is supplied.

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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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