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Let be the smallest prime and let be the smallest integer such that .
Is it true that for almost all ? Does for almost all ? Are there infinitely many primes such that is the only for which ?
Source: erdosproblems.com/456
A full solution has been claimed but not yet accepted. Settled in another form, for example when its parts resolve differently or the question is open-ended.
Open. The site's proof-claims tab carries one full proof claim, by
David Turturean (naming GPT-6-Astra Pro as the system used, with earlier work by
ChatGPT-5.5-Pro and Claude), submitted 2026-09-23 with an Overleaf write-up and
a Lean repository: it answers the three questions no, no and yes,
unconditionally, through a positive lower density for the set of with
and a lower bound of order for the uniqueness primes
up to ; an earlier manuscript of the same author, posted on 4 May 2026,
answered the third question only under Dickson's conjecture. The site labels the
problem OPEN (page last edited 07 October 2025), no referee or outside reviewer
has accepted the argument, and the claim is recorded as pending on
its claim page (Turturean, 2026);
the derived standing is claimed.