OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Or, odd primes p such that -1 is not a square mod p, i.e., the Legendre symbol (-1/p) = -1. [LeVeque I, p. 66]. - N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 28 2008
Primes which are not the sum of two squares, see the comment in A022544. - Artur Jasinski, Nov 15 2006
Natural primes which are also Gaussian primes. (It is a common error to refer to this sequence as "the Gaussian primes".)
Inert rational primes in the field Q(sqrt(-1)). - N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 25 2017
Numbers n such that the product of coefficients of (2n)-th cyclotomic polynomial equals -1. - Benoit Cloitre, Oct 22 2002
For p and q both belonging to the sequence, exactly one of the congruences x^2 = p (mod q), x^2 = q (mod p) is solvable, according to Gauss reciprocity law. - Lekraj Beedassy, Jul 17 2003
Also primes p that divide L((p-1)/2) or L((p+1)/2), where L(n) = A000032(n), the Lucas numbers. Union of A122869 and A122870. - Alexander Adamchuk, Sep 16 2006
Also odd primes p that divide ((p-1)!! + 1) or ((p-2)!! + 1). - Alexander Adamchuk, Nov 30 2006
Also odd primes p that divide ((p-1)!! - 1) or ((p-2)!! - 1). - Alexander Adamchuk, Apr 18 2007
This sequence is a proper subset of the set of the absolute values of negative fundamental discriminants (A003657). - Paul Muljadi, Mar 29 2008
Bernard Frénicle de Bessy discovered that such primes cannot be the hypotenuse of a Pythagorean triangle in opposition to primes of the form 4*n+1 (see A002144). - after Paul Curtz, Sep 10 2008
Subsequence of A007970. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 18 2011
A151763(a(n)) = -1.
Primes p such that p XOR 2 = p - 2. Brad Clardy, Oct 25 2011 (Misleading in the sense that this is a formula for the super-sequence A004767. - R. J. Mathar, Jul 28 2014)
It appears that each term of A004767 is the mean of two terms of this subsequence of primes therein; cf. A245203. - M. F. Hasler, Jul 13 2014
Numbers n > 2 such that ((n-2)!!)^2 == 1 (mod n). - Thomas Ordowski, Jul 24 2016
Odd numbers n > 1 such that ((n-1)!!)^2 == 1 (mod n). - Thomas Ordowski, Jul 25 2016
Primes p such that (p-2)!! == (p-3)!! (mod p). - Thomas Ordowski, Jul 28 2016
See Granville and Martin for a discussion of the relative numbers of primes of the form 4k+1 and 4k+3. - Editors, May 01 2017
Sometimes referred to as Blum primes for their connection to A016105 and the Blum Blum Shub generator. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 14 2018
Conjecture: a(n) for n > 4 can be written as a sum of 3 primes of the form 4k+1, which would imply that primes of the form 4k+3 >= 23 can be decomposed into a sum of 6 nonzero squares. - Thomas Scheuerle, Feb 09 2023
REFERENCES
M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math. Series 55, 1964 (and various reprintings), p. 870.
G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 5th ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1979, p. 219, th. 252.
W. J. LeVeque, Topics in Number Theory. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 2 vols., 1956, Vol. 1, p. 66.
N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
David Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin Books, NY, 1986, Revised edition 1987. See p. 90.
LINKS
Zak Seidov, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (first 1000 terms from T. D. Noe)
M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972 [alternative scanned copy].
D. Alpern, Gaussian primes.
Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum, and Mike Shub, A simple unpredictable pseudo-random number generator, SIAM Journal on Computing 15:2 (1 May 1986), pp. 364-383.
A. Granville and G. Martin, Prime number races, arXiv:math/0408319 [math.NT], 2004.
Ernest G. Hibbs, Component Interactions of the Prime Numbers, Ph. D. Thesis, Capitol Technology Univ. (2022), see p. 33.
Lucas Lacasa, Bartolome Luque, Ignacio Gómez, and Octavio Miramontes, On a Dynamical Approach to Some Prime Number Sequences, Entropy 20.2 (2018): 131, also arXiv:1802.08349 [math.NT], 2018.
E. T. Ordman, Tables of the class number for negative prime discriminants, Deposited in Unpublished Mathematical Table file of Math. Comp. [Annotated scanned partial copy with notes]
H. J. Smith, Gaussian Primes.
I. Stewart, The Great Mathematical Problems, 2013.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Gaussian Prime.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Gaussian Integer.
Wolfram Research, The Gauss Reciprocity Law.
FORMULA
From Vaclav Kotesovec, Apr 30 2020: (Start)
Product_{k>=1} (1 - 1/a(k)^2) = A243379.
Product_{k>=1} (1 + 1/a(k)^2) = A243381.
Product_{k>=1} (1 - 1/a(k)^3) = A334427.
Product_{k>=1} (1 + 1/a(k)^3) = A334426.
Product_{k>=1} (1 - 1/a(k)^4) = A334448.
Product_{k>=1} (1 + 1/a(k)^4) = A334447.
Product_{k>=1} (1 - 1/a(k)^5) = A334452.
Product_{k>=1} (1 + 1/a(k)^5) = A334451. (End)
From Vaclav Kotesovec, May 05 2020: (Start)
Product_{k>=1} (1 + 1/a(k)) / (1 + 1/A002144(k)) = Pi/(4*A064533^2) = 1.3447728438248695625516649942427635670667319092323632111110962...
Product_{k>=1} (1 - 1/a(k)) / (1 - 1/A002144(k)) = Pi/(8*A064533^2) = 0.6723864219124347812758324971213817835333659546161816055555481... (End)
Sum_{k >= 1} 1/a(k)^s = (1/2) * Sum_{n >= 1 odd numbers} moebius(n) * log(2 * (2^(n*s) - 1) * (n*s - 1)! * zeta(n*s) / (Pi^(n*s) * abs(EulerE(n*s - 1))))/n, s >= 3 odd number. - Dimitris Valianatos, May 20 2020
MAPLE
A002145 := proc(n)
option remember;
if n = 1 then
3;
else
a := nextprime(procname(n-1)) ;
while a mod 4 <> 3 do
a := nextprime(a) ;
end do;
return a;
end if;
end proc:
seq(A002145(n), n=1..20) ; # R. J. Mathar, Dec 08 2011
MATHEMATICA
Select[4Range[150] - 1, PrimeQ] (* Alonso del Arte, Dec 19 2013 *)
Select[ Prime@ Range[2, 110], Length@ PowersRepresentations[#^2, 2, 2] == 1 &] (* or *)
Select[ Prime@ Range[2, 110], JacobiSymbol[-1, #] == -1 &] (* Robert G. Wilson v, May 11 2014 *)
PROG
(PARI) forprime(p=2, 1e3, if(p%4==3, print1(p", "))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jun 10 2011
(Haskell)
a002145 n = a002145_list !! (n-1)
a002145_list = filter ((== 1) . a010051) [3, 7 ..]
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 02 2015, Sep 23 2011
(Magma) [4*n+3 : n in [0..142] | IsPrime(4*n+3)]; // Arkadiusz Wesolowski, Nov 15 2013
(Sage)
def A002145_list(n): return [p for p in prime_range(1, n + 1) if p % 4 == 3] # Peter Luschny, Jul 29 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
More terms from James A. Sellers, Apr 21 2000
STATUS
approved