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A228616 Determinant of the n X n matrix with (i,j)-entry equal to 1 or 0 according as 2*(i + j) - 1 is prime or not. 9

%I #5 Aug 28 2013 03:02:33

%S 1,0,-1,-2,0,0,0,-2,3,11,24,-60,-16,31,-217,-1148,-164,132,395,697,

%T -191,-76,125664,-213885,-171654,114902,353497,-388325,-1738118,

%U -222898,248633,382075,-1637075,21100,4049068,-189147708,-279083383,472023163,-19063401,-6718578823

%N Determinant of the n X n matrix with (i,j)-entry equal to 1 or 0 according as 2*(i + j) - 1 is prime or not.

%C Conjecture: a(n) is nonzero for any n > 7.

%C Clearly this conjecture implies that there are infinitely many primes.

%H Zhi-Wei Sun, <a href="/A228616/b228616.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..250</a>

%e a(1) = 1 since 2*(1 + 1) - 1 = 3 is a prime.

%t a[n_]:=a[n]=Det[Table[If[PrimeQ[2(i+j)-1],1,0],{i,1,n},{j,1,n}]]

%t Table[a[n],{n,1,40}]

%Y Cf. A000040, A069191, A228615, A228591.

%K sign

%O 1,4

%A _Zhi-Wei Sun_, Aug 27 2013

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