Today I need your help to know if the proof I have provided below is correct or not. I want to prove that there is no prime of the form where .
Now, first of all, I tried to get some initial information about and used MAPLE 14. I came to know that if then the above number is indeed prime but otherwise for any with so far, computationally it has been shown that is not prime.
So we can take the advantage of it and conjecture: ** No number of the form is prime if **
Proof:
Note that for , we have
provided .
Next we check the case when is odd. Assume that . (when then hence not prime. So we see for etc i.e. form.)
This time we see that
So next we have to check what happens if we let form. In this case the number will become as
And then taking modulo 5, we obtain as
Thus we conclude that when , is composite number.
Please tell if I have made any mistake on proving this.
Thanking to all of you in advance.
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