The Euclid-Mullin graph

Abstract

We introduce the Euclid-Mullin graph, which encodes all instances of Euclid's proof of the infinitude of primes. We investigate structural properties of the graph both theoretically and numerically; in particular, we prove that it is not a tree.

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