Type: Article
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Citations: 52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4064/cm115-2-1
A study of certain Hamiltonian systems has led Y. Long to conjecture the existence of infinitely many primes which are not of the form $p=2\lfloor \alpha n\rfloor +1$, where $1< \alpha < 2$ is a fixed irrational number. An argument of P. Ribenboim coupl