Preprint of "Brazilian Primes Which Are Also Sophie Germain Primes"

A preprint of "Brazilian Primes Which Are Also Sophie Germain Primes" is now available on the math arXiv. In it, Hester Graves and I disprove a conjecture from Schott's 2010 paper on Brazilian primes, namely that no Brazilian primes are also Sophie Germain primes.

What does this mean? A Brazilian prime is a prime number of the form 1+b+b²+...+b^k-1, i.e. a prime whose digits are all 1 when written in base b. (To avoid silliness, you need k>2 and b>1.) For this reason, they are sometimes called "prime repunits".

A Sophie Germain prime is a prime p such that 2*p+1 is also prime.

If you just start computing Brazilian primes, most of them will be of length 3. We show that the length of a Brazilian Sophie Germain prime has to be a prime congruent to 2 mod 3, i.e. 5, 11, 17, 23, etc.

In the paper, we computed all Brazilian Sophie Germain primes up to 10⁴⁴. There are 38,031,404 of them, all but 12 of them of length 5. The 12 exceptions are all of length 11. The smallest one of length 17 is 41969813142886369903423014255641324842178685773056721, which is bigger than 10⁵².

We have actually computed all Brazilian Sophie Germain primes up to 10⁴⁶ (there are 104,890,302 of them) and 10⁴⁸ (we haven't counted them up yet). A later version of the preprint will reflect that.

Submission of the sequence of Brazilian Sophie Germain primes is in progress. A later version of the preprint will also reflect that.