A112046 - OEIS

A112046

a(n) = the least k >= 1 for which the Jacobi symbol J(k,2n+1) is not +1 (thus is either 0 or -1).

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OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

If we instead list the least k >= 1, for which Jacobi symbol J(k,2n+1) is 0, we get A090368.

It is easy to see that every term is prime. Because the Jacobi symbol is multiplicative as J(ab,m) = J(a,m)*J(b,m) and if for every index i>=1 and < x, J(i,m)=1, then if J(x,m) is 0 or -1, x cannot be composite (say y*z, with both y and z less than x), as then either J(y,m) or J(z,m) would be non-one, which contradicts our assumption that x is the first index where non-one value appears. Thus x must be prime.

LINKS

Indranil Ghosh and A.H.M. Smeets, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000 (first 1000 terms from Indranil Ghosh)

FORMULA

a(n) = A112050(n) + 1 = A000040(A112049(n)).

PROG

(PARI) A112046(n) = for(i=1, (2*n), if((kronecker(i, (n+n+1)) < 1), return(i))); \\ Antti Karttunen, May 26 2017

(Python)

from sympy import jacobi_symbol as J

def a(n):

i=1

while True:

if J(i, 2*n + 1)!=1: return i