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/-
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import FormalConjectures.Util.ProblemImports

/-!
# Green's Open Problem 64

*Reference:* [Ben Green's Open Problems](https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/greenbj/papers/open-problems.pdf#problem.64)

Do there exist infinitely many primes $p$ for which $p - 2$ has an odd number of prime factors,
counted with multiplicity?

Writing $\Omega(n)$ for the number of prime factors of $n$ counted with multiplicity, the question
asks whether the set of primes $p$ with $\Omega(p - 2)$ odd is infinite.
-/

open ArithmeticFunction

open scoped ArithmeticFunction.Omega

namespace Green64

/--
Do there exist infinitely many primes $p$ for which $p - 2$ has an odd number of prime factors,
counted with multiplicity (i.e. $\Omega(p - 2)$ is odd)?
-/
@[category research open, AMS 11]
theorem green_64 :
answer(sorry) ↔ {p : ℕ | p.Prime ∧ Odd (Ω (p - 2))}.Infinite := by
sorry

/-- $5$ satisfies the condition: $5$ is prime and $5 - 2 = 3$ is prime, so $\Omega(3) = 1$ is odd. -/
@[category test, AMS 11]
theorem green_64_mem_five : 5 ∈ {p : ℕ | p.Prime ∧ Odd (Ω (p - 2))} := by
refine ⟨by norm_num, ?_⟩
rw [show (5 : ℕ) - 2 = 3 by norm_num, cardFactors_apply_prime (by norm_num)]
exact odd_one

/-- $7$ satisfies the condition: $7$ is prime and $7 - 2 = 5$ is prime, so $\Omega(5) = 1$ is odd. -/
@[category test, AMS 11]
theorem green_64_mem_seven : 7 ∈ {p : ℕ | p.Prime ∧ Odd (Ω (p - 2))} := by
refine ⟨by norm_num, ?_⟩
rw [show (7 : ℕ) - 2 = 5 by norm_num, cardFactors_apply_prime (by norm_num)]
exact odd_one

/-- $11$ does *not* satisfy the condition: although $11$ is prime, $11 - 2 = 9 = 3 ^ 2$ has
$\Omega(9) = 2$ prime factors, which is even. This shows the condition is non-trivial. -/
@[category test, AMS 11]
theorem green_64_not_mem_eleven : 11 ∉ {p : ℕ | p.Prime ∧ Odd (Ω (p - 2))} := by
rintro ⟨-, hodd⟩
rw [show (11 : ℕ) - 2 = 3 ^ 2 by norm_num, cardFactors_apply_prime_pow (by norm_num)] at hodd
exact (by decide : ¬ Odd 2) hodd

end Green64
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