Sequences of Primes Obtained by the Method of Concatenation (Collected Papers)

Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to show that the method of concatenation can be a powerful tool in number theory and, in particular, in obtaining possible infinite sequences of primes. Part One of this book, “Primes in Smarandache concatenated sequences and Smarandache-Coman sequences of primes” , contains 12 papers on various sequences of primes that are distinguished among the terms of the well known Smarandache concatenated sequences. The sequences presented in this part are related to concatenation in three different ways: the sequence is obtained by the method of concatenation but the operation applied on its terms is some other arithmetical operation; the sequence is not obtained by concatenation but the operation applied on its terms is concatenation or both the sequence and the operation applied on its terms (in order to find sequences of primes) are using the method of concatenation. Part Two of this book, “Sequences of primes obtained by the method of concatenation” brings together 51 articles which aim, using the mentioned method, to highlight sequences of numbers which are rich in primes or are liable to lead to large primes. The method of concatenation is applied to different classes of numbers, e.g. Poulet numbers, twin primes, reversible primes, triangular numbers, repdigits, factorial numbers, fibonorial numbers, primordial numbers in order to obtain sequences of primes.