Chiral Prime Concatenations

Abstract

The notion of chiral prime concatenations is studied as a recursive construction of prime numbers starting from a seed set and with appropriate blocks to define the primality growth, generation by generation, either from the right or from the left. Several basic questions are addressed like whether chiral concatenation is a symmetric process, an endless process, as well as the calculation of largest chiral prime numbers. In particular, the largest left-concatenated prime number is constructed. It is a unique prime number of 24 digits. By introducing anomalous left-concatenations of primes we can surpass the limit of 24 digits for left-concatenated primes. It is conjectured that prime numbers are left chiral under anomalous concatenations.