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A Lucas prime is a Lucas number that is a prime number. The first few are 2, 3, 7, 11, 29, 47, 199, 521, 2207, 3571, ... (OEIS A005479). The reported indices of primes or probable primes Lucas numbers include n=0, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 31, 37, 41, 47, 53, 61, 71, 79, 113, 313, 353, 503, 613, 617, 863, 1097, 1361, 4787, 4793, 5851, 7741, 8467, 10691, 12251, 13963, 14449, 19469, 35449, 36779, 44507, 51169, 56003, 81671, 89849, 94823, 140057, 148091, 159521, 183089, 193201, 202667, 344293, 387433, 443609, 532277, 574219, 616787, 631181, 637751, 651821, 692147, 901657, 1051849, ... (Dubner and Keller 1999, Lifchitz and Lifchitz; OEIS A001606). The larger listed terms include probable primes whose primality has not been proved.

As of Oct. 2026, the largest Lucas prime listed by The Prime Pages is L_(202667), with 42355 decimal digits, reported as proved by elliptic curve primality proving in Nov. 2023. A larger reported Lucas probable prime is L_(2316773), with 484177 decimal digits (OEIS A001606).


See also

Fibonacci Prime, Integer Sequence Primes, Lucas Number, Lucas Pseudoprime

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References

Brillhart, J.; Montgomery, P. L.; and Silverman, R. D. "Tables of Fibonacci and Lucas Factorizations." Math. Comput. 50, 251-260, 1988.Dubner, H. and Keller, W. "New Fibonacci and Lucas Primes." Math. Comput. 68, 417-427 and S1-S12, 1999.Lifchitz, H. and Lifchitz, R. "PRP Top Records: Search for L(n)." http://www.primenumbers.net/prptop/searchform.php?form=L(n).The Prime Pages. "Lucas Number." https://t5k.org/top20/page.php?id=48.The Prime Pages. "V(202667)." https://t5k.org/primes/page.php?id=136636.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A001606 and A005479 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Lucas Prime." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LucasPrime.html

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