The fixed-exponent projective-prime conjecture

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Fix a prime integer n≥3n\ge 3, and let pp range over prime numbers. Define

m=1+p+p2+…+pn−1.m=1+p+p^2+\ldots+p^{n-1}.

The fixed-exponent projective-prime conjecture. For every fixed prime n≥3n\ge 3, there are infinitely many prime values of mm. This is a special case of the broader projective-prime infinitude problem, and the source presents it as reasonable but unproved.

References

Primary source

Gareth A. Jones and Alexander K. Zvonkin, “Primes in geometric series and finite permutation groups”, arXiv:2010.08023 (2020).

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