Monday, 7 March 2011

nt.number theory - Prime numbers that lead to relatively prime

The answer is no. As the Wikipedia article in my comment states, the counterexample $p = 17, q = 3313$ was found by Stephens in 1971, but the stronger question of whether one can ever divide the other is a famous open problem because its solution would greatly simplify a step in the proof of the Feit-Thompson theorem.

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