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单词 HiggsPrime
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Higgs prime


A Higgs prime is a prime numberMathworldPlanetmath Hpn for which, given an exponent a, it is the case that

ϕ(Hpn)|i=1n-1Hpia,

(where ϕ(x) is Euler’s totient function) and Hpn>Hpn-1.

For a=2, the first few Higgs primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 43, 47, etc., listed in A007459 of Sloane’s OEIS. So, for example, 13 is a Higgs prime because the square of the product of the smaller Higgs primes is 5336100, and divided by 12 this is 444675. But 17 is not a Higgs prime because the square of the product of the smaller primes is 901800900, which leaves a remainder of 4 when divided by 16.

From observation of the first few Higgs primes for squares through seventh powers, it would seem more compact to list those primes that are not Higgs primes. Observation further reveals that a Fermat primeMathworldPlanetmath 22n+1 can’t be a Higgs prime for the ath power if a<2n.

It’s not known if there are infinitely many Higgs primes for any exponent a>1. The situation is quite different for a=1. There are only four of them: 2, 3, 7 and 43 (a sequence suspiciously similar to Sylvester’s sequence). In 1993, Burris and Lee found that about a fifth of the primes below a million are Higgs prime, and they concluded that even if the sequence of Higgs primes for squares is finite, “a computer enumeration is not feasible.”

References

  • 1 S. Burris & S. Lee, “Tarski’s high school identitiesPlanetmathPlanetmath”, Amer. Math. Monthly 100 (1993): 233
  • 2 N. Sloane & S. Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, New York: Academic Press (1995): M0660
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