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A primality test for $Kp^n+1$ numbers and a generalization of Safe Primes and Sophie Germain Primes

Published 25 Jul 2022 in math.NT | (2207.12407v1)

Abstract: In this paper, we provide a generalization of Proth's theorem for integers of the form $Kpn+1$. In particular, a primality test that requires only one modular exponentiation similar to that of Fermat's test without the computation of any GCD's. We also provide two tests to increase the chances of proving the primality of $Kpn+1$ numbers (if they are primes indeed). As a corollaries of these tests we provide three families of integers $N$ whose primality can be certified only by proving that $a{N-1} \equiv 1 \pmod N$ (Fermat's test). We also generalize Safe Primes and define those generalized numbers as $a$-SafePrimes for being similar to SafePrimes (since $N-1$ for these numbers has large prime factor the same as SafePrimes), we address some questions regarding the distribution of those numbers and provide a conjecture about the distribution of their related numbers $a$-SophieGermainPrimes which seems to be true even if we are dealing with $100$, $1000$, or $10000$ digits primes.

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